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Old 04-28-2009, 08:31 AM
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Default Why did the Eastern Orthodox Church lose the Middle East to Islam?

including the Holy Land?
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Old 05-03-2009, 08:31 AM
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Islam have Civilization

did Eastern Orthodox Church Civilization?!!

Islamic Civilization

http://english.islamstory.com/article.php?cat_id=3
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Old 05-06-2009, 08:31 AM
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Forced conversion was very rare. Mostly it was because Islam was simply more popular.
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:31 AM
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Because Islam is a closer religion to the God of Abraham then the hocks pocks Baal worshiping Jews and Christians
And that phony Satellite Nation is not and never will be the Land of true Israel, what the Jews try to masquerade as the Holy land
Don't any of you ever really read the Bible.
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Old 05-08-2009, 08:31 AM
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because the church alter ted the religion and BIBLE to gain the advantage and make people pay them money

in Islam Jesus is a prophet but not sun of god. Jesus himself never said i am the son of god and worship me . you should worship god only !!!! Jesus was a mess anger from god. !! Islam corrected your disbeliefFeut you stay in your darkness disbelieving in god.

Islam is the truth and never been altered the words of god in the quran has been preserved letter by letter by muslims since it was first revealed by Gabriel to prophet mohammed.
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Old 05-09-2009, 08:31 AM
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The Eastern Orthodox Church did not "loose" the Middle East to Islam. In every part of the world, heresies have sprung up in every generation. Syria and Lebanon were Orthodox Christian nations, and still to this day, they have significant Orthodox Christian populations. There are other faiths as well, but so are there many different faiths in most countries. The Orthodox Church could not possibly be construed as "loosing" the Holy Land to Islam. That's an absurd notion. If you'd ever been to the Holy Land, you'd know 3 major religions are represented there: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Islam is no more powerful or important there than Christianity or Judaism...and the three co-exist fairly peacefully, for the cramped quarters. The Orthodox Church has as many holdings there as either Judaism or Islam. You don't seem to know your history or geography very well to make such a skewed and inaccurate statement as your question poses. You know most of western Europe became Roman Catholic when it separated from the traditional teachings of Christianity found and kept in the eastern Christian world. Are you going to say that the Eastern Orthodox Church "lost" Europe because people fell away from it's right and true teachings? People apostatize. That is their choice, and surely the Church is not to blame. And surely you realize Orthodox Christianity has many many many many Churches in Europe. Orthodoxy is not lost in the Middle east or Europe. It's there. Perhaps you just don't know where to find it. I've been in the Middle East, the Holy Land and Europe, and I had no difficulty at all finding all the Eastern Orthodox people and Churches and holdings I needed. It's there. It's not lost. You just have to go find and see it for yourself. Then you'll know it's still there...as always.
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Old 05-14-2009, 08:31 AM
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people of this area has reverted to Islam, as they found it as a true religion, that doesn't contradict with nature.
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Old 05-19-2009, 08:31 AM
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At the rise of Islam, most of the Middle East was ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire, which was Orthodox Christian right up until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 . Political unrest in the empire led in part to the divisions in Christianity in that region which were the segue for Islam to be able to conquer large patches of the Eastern Roman Empire by the sword.

The difference is in how much death and destruction one is willing to tolerate or give out in saving ones civilization -- the Eastern Roman Empire was highly civilized, being the inheritors both of the glory of the Roman Empire and the Alexandrian Empire (which is why that region spoke primarily Greek at the time of Christ.) The tales of the fall of Constantinople include the soldiers of the empire receiving forgiveness from the Church for the deaths that they would cause. They did not want to kill or be killed, unlike those who conquered The City, and earlier the rest of the empire.

BTW, the term "Byzantine Empire" was completely unknown to the Eastern Romans. Even today, the Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul's official address is (in English) "the Roman Patriarchate". Islam knew whom it had conquered -- Romans, not Byzantines.
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