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Originally Posted by KevinG  The crusades were carried out by Christian extremists. |
Um, what? Most of the Crusades were begun by the Pope with a call to arms. The central tenet of the Crusades were to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims. This is the Catholic Church we're talking about
: fundamentalism is listening to the Pope. They were not extremists.
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Originally Posted by KevinG The Bible does not advocate what the Crusades were about. |
Except maybe the chapters on how great taking over Canaan was. Or the part where Elijah calls for a genocide.
Maybe they were after the oil, too?