LOL this whole thing has been blown up,
using the crusades as an example of Christian aggression is using revisionists history....and not accurate
the first crusades were begun in response to an ever expanding islamic empire.....
it was at the request of a Byzantine emperor who was under assalt by muslims in an attempt to overthrow and dispose of a then Christain empire that the Pope started the first........not to mention that Jerusalem had been over taken by muslims and this was an attempt(successful) to re-take and place Jerusalem under Christain athourity.
add in that the muslims had already made inroads into Europe (Spain,Balkans) in N Africa, Egypt which before being overthrown by muslims was the largest coptic Christain nation of its time.......one can go back in this history and try to find who threw the first stone, I doubt there will ever be agreement, but the Crusades were a reaction to an action.......Christians responding to the invasions of muslims and NOT an example of nasty little Christians going after the poor muslims. were atrocities commited,yes, by both sides, did it expand beyond what it was initially begun for...perhaps.......and I for one am glad that the Christians of that time stood up and fought and were not afraid of what the rest of the world might say.
using the crusades as an example of Christian aggression is using revisionists history....and not accurate
the first crusades were begun in response to an ever expanding islamic empire.....
it was at the request of a Byzantine emperor who was under assalt by muslims in an attempt to overthrow and dispose of a then Christain empire that the Pope started the first........not to mention that Jerusalem had been over taken by muslims and this was an attempt(successful) to re-take and place Jerusalem under Christain athourity.
add in that the muslims had already made inroads into Europe (Spain,Balkans) in N Africa, Egypt which before being overthrown by muslims was the largest coptic Christain nation of its time.......one can go back in this history and try to find who threw the first stone, I doubt there will ever be agreement, but the Crusades were a reaction to an action.......Christians responding to the invasions of muslims and NOT an example of nasty little Christians going after the poor muslims. were atrocities commited,yes, by both sides, did it expand beyond what it was initially begun for...perhaps.......and I for one am glad that the Christians of that time stood up and fought and were not afraid of what the rest of the world might say.