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by pgeorgi 813 days ago
> Dividing the world into "Pagan countries" and "Christian countries" is both inaccurate

That's not what the post said. Just that, before Islam was even a thing, those countries that Jews lived in which these days are considered "Muslim countries" were broadly "pagan" and/or "christian", depending on time and location.

As for your assertion of no christian countries thousands of years ago, where you state yourself "Armenia converting about 1715-ish years ago": That's thousands of years (as in: more than 1000)

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> those countries that Jews lived in which these days are considered "Muslim countries"

Is irrelevant, since we're talking about the 11th century. (I can't find a good 11th-century map to point at, but the article describes enough to give the impression of how different it was back then.)

Three posts above the goal post stood at "inaccurate" and "overly-simplistic," now we're at irrelevant. Okay.