After centuries of Muslim wars of expansion, the Crusades were organized by western European Christians to stop the expansion of Muslim states. Christianity has evolved to a point where today it acts as an ethic compass in a secular system, unlike Islam, where it wants to dictate everything in life.
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thegreekgeek@midwest.social 1 year agoWell about six million of them are from the crusades.
feifei@lemm.ee 1 year ago
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lets be real, all religions have caused a lot of suffering and death. At least nowadays there are gay priests/gay churches/ churches that have the rainbow flag, while there almost none islam temples that would do that. The only one I know is one in Berlin that has been constantly being damaged by other islamics and it has to be protected by the police. Almost all christian coutries had at least decriminalizazed homosexuality and a lot of them have made it legal. There are no islamic countries that had legalized same sex marriage, and most of them penalize homosexuality with death/life imprisonment, etc
karabiener@lemmy.world 1 year ago
hot take crusaids were justified they were taking back the land where muslims commited genocide , slavery and sex slavery, down to the last child.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean the same place that saw Christians take the city and kill every man woman and child, torturing some and raping as they went. Also you can’t take back land that was never yours. But sure, ignore the written accounts that the "holy land"was taken solely to profit from trade that moved through it.