Tolerant Christanity and Intolerant Crusades

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Re: Tolerant Christanity and Intolerant Crusades

@Faris_Udeen

I was going to make a long article on this…

Basically Christianity has never been all that tolerant in the first place and the First crusade had three main motivating factors.

1. There were a lot of Princes in the West who were younger rivals to the throne and wars were happening all the time… sending them out of Europe on campaigns to win new territory was one way for many monarchs to get them out of thier hair.

2. The Byzantine empire was in decline and made a formal request to the Catholics and Western European powers for help to stem the Turks.

3. The More millitant and warlike Turks had established themselves as the major power in the East and so the new threat was seen as more dangerous than the tolerenat Arabs who had become much less warlike over the last couple of centuries. Christians saw Turks as more savage and barbarous and the proganada (Largely false) Was that Turks would kill and loot pilgrims or prevent Christians from visitng the holy land.

A little off topic, but I always think how the Christianity got its roots in Europe (especially Rome) when Jesus belonged to Palestine?