Religion has always been used by a power hungry few as a means to control the many. This has been the case over every culture since time immemorial.
Having said that, does anyone here know WHY the Crusades were fought by the Christians?
Nope, wrong.
The Crusades were fought against Muslims who were trying to take over the world. Way back then, just like today, they started it.
This is what appears if you look up why the Crusades were fought, the Christians weren't extremists "The Crusades were a series of religious and political wars fought between 1096 and 1291 for control of the Holy Land. Pope Urban II initiated the First Crusade (1096–1102) in order to aid the Christian Byzantine Empire, which was under attack by Muslim Seljuk Turks" They were defending their own people!
Futhermore, the I have a feeling the downvotes guestwho got were because people thought he was descriminating against Muslims, I don't know what he thinks, but you can't deny that the Muslims have tried to do a lot of bad things, however that doesn't make all Muslims bad or the entire religion extremist. Both them trying to take over the Middle East now and during the Crusades back then, it was groups of Muslims fighting, not the whole religion.
That's exactly what I meant. As I said above, many religions have zealots and the occasional violence. There has been violence in Islam since its founding; Christianity too (equal time y'all), but I brought up the crusades since that's the best known example of "holy wars" and what most Christianity bashers point to.
Both of my comments were directed towards sincere_millshake and were supporting your comment. The second one wasn't just for sincere_milkshake but was also directed towards the people who had originally downvoted you. I'm saying this because I've gotten in arguements before in situations like this where both sides are saying the same thing.
dude this was tweeted by @UmaKompton on twitter; she's a twitter troll omfg its one thing to supposedly say something ignorant but then its a whole other level to believe some headassery like this sdfkas
Haha Muslimistan, I like it. No, dude... You don't get it. There are Bosniaks. Totally different ethnic group. They didn't get Latin nor Orthodox Christianity, cause they didn't wanna make enemies on neither side (European Roman Empire part was divided right through Bosnia) but they got two enemies! That's why Bosniaks crossed over to Islam so easily when Turks came, they were so disappointed in Christianity, they took monotheism 4.0,latest and best update as they saw it back then. Fascist Serbs (from which I genetically come)don't recognize them as separate nation, cause many Serbs also took Islam and serbs violently resettled them to Bosnia and now they think Bosniaks are those Serbian Muslims, and they simply call them Muslims, as a nation. It is fascist, but you can express as one in national poll as a nation. Many do. ;)
Having said that, does anyone here know WHY the Crusades were fought by the Christians?
Nope, wrong.
The Crusades were fought against Muslims who were trying to take over the world. Way back then, just like today, they started it.
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