@TheHarrisSultan has little time for Islamic colonialists. For base facts, this was an Arab adventure to grab Egypt's resources for the Levant, mostly for the Damascene Levant at that. There were whole civil wars in the next generations revolving around who got the pension and how the pelf was to be distributed. These resources, from Christian and Iranian nations, were not surrendered out of charity.
European colonialists are - oddly - meanwhile arguing the case for Christian colonialism. Where Islam enlighted Egypt and Iran with their shari'a and (checks notes) endogamy and nine-year-old Consent and industrial slavery; Christian missionaries tried to ban slavery. Also, in India and China, they stopped human sacrifice and foot binding (as, earlier, Mesoamerica; although the Teotihuanacos ended earlier). So says Katy Faust. But - she's not in it to defend Christianity nor even to nuance how Christians got their policies enacted. That's just the foundation.
Faust proposes that Christians get into a new Crusade: now, against surrogacy, IVF, and eugenics. Sometimes "pedophiles" - she means gays - get into surrogacy, so that's good enough cause to stamp it all out. Eugenics was done by Bad People so gene-tweaking shouldn't be done today even if race is taken out of the equation. And IVF means embryo-destruction so it's best not to create those embryoes in the first place.
As Christians meddled from a position of power in the old days, Faust would have Christians meddle today. I assume one model might be the US occupation of Afghanistan which brought paederasty and the Rainbow, in the local politicking against the Taliban. Or how we didn't quite save the Christians of Iraq and Syria. Maybe "soft" power of economic sanctions should work to convince Europe and China not to reproduce in ways Faust doesn't like.
Or maybe Faust should consider what Christianity should be, perhaps even praying to God for that guidance. Before she shackles the whole Christian community with this imperialistic version thereof, which I doubt will work.
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