The end of the crusades witnessed another downfall in humans, during the crusades there was hope the europeans put aside their differences and foguht against a common enemy to protect their religous beliefs in the one nad ONLY God. when this came to an end the church split putting an end to any hopes of another succesful crusade to stop the Muslim invaders.
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Yes, particularly BECAUSE MOST OF THE COUNTRIES THEY INVADED HAD A SIGNIFICANT CHRISTIAN POPULATION OR WERE PLAINLY CHRISTIAN. And what do you think the muslims do?, they also pray to ONE GOD. And the split of the church happened one hundred years after the so-called crusade. No sense. And read a little history and don´t see so many movies.
Well, you have to see all the fundy revisionisms. For example, they consider rights to tread other people rights to enhance their priviledges, or they consider offense to Christianity not to be Christian. So, they may well consider invasion the mere fact of not being Christian. After all, they intruded into their sacred right of massacring all those who didn´t believe in God in the known world of the time.
I'll have you know that I am European, and that I never "foguhted" anyone!
Europeans weren't protecting their religious beliefs, their actions were in reply to the Byzantine Empire asking the Pope for help after losing a great deal of territory. The Byzantine Empire was not Catholic (although they were Christian) so by fighting what they passed off as a "just" war against heretics had nothing to do with banding together. They could've done nothing and they would've been fine, but Europe's population was expanding and gaining more territory as well as taking advantage of the Byzantine Empire's weakness was too great a temptation - Florence later looted Constantinople and killed countless Christians.
Well, you're absolutely right. Except, of course, for everything you just said. Read a history book, the Byzantine split occured before the Crusades were done, and one of the Crusades never even got to the Holy Land, but instead sacked Constantinople....a Christian city.
THE SONG: (back once more from the Abyss!)
Gee whiz, we coulda killeded lots more muslims if we put on another crusade, most of us 'Killers for Khrist' weren't alive back then. Dang, I'm never gonna get to slaughter infidels. Rats!
Originally posted by Eggbert's Waffles:
You idiot - the church split BEFORE the Crusades. Have you heard of this thing called the Great Schism? It happened in 1054 when Eastern Orthodox Christianity split from Western Roman Catholic Christianity. The first Crusade declaration was not made until 1095. Learn some history, please.
when this came to an end the church split putting an end to any hopes of another succesful crusade to stop the Muslim invaders.
"The end of the crusades witnessed another downfall in humans, during the crusades there was hope the europeans put aside their differences and foguht against a common enemy to protect their religous beliefs in the one nad ONLY God."First, God and Allah are the same God.
Second, Europeans did not "put aside their differences." Many European Jews were slaughtered by crusaders on the way to the "holy land." Also, I'm sure that many Europeans didn't actually believe in Xian dogma, but were too scared of the Church to speak out against it.
"when this came to an end the church split putting an end to any hopes of another succesful crusade to stop the Muslim invaders."
The Xian Church had splits before the crusades and after the crusades, fucktard.
when this came to an end the church split
Second, Europeans did not "put aside their differences." Many European Jews were slaughtered by crusaders on the way to the "holy land."
Yeah, glorifying the Crusades isn't such a hot idea, Eggbert. Several Crusades were launched against heterodox Christians, and others against Muslims never reached the Holy Land at all. The ones that did captured territory but eventually lost it and were pushed out again. For the most part, the Crusades were a huge, crushing FAILURE for Christendom, sort of like the war in Iraq is for us today.
"the one nad ONLY God"
Lance Armstrong?
Confused?
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