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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  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. |
The pope is not the Bible.
And the Crusades were far different from what today's Jihad is.
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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?
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Could you locate these passages and post them please. I am not defending Christians and the Crusades by the way.