>>This is the legacy of heretic Martin Luther.<<
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It was not always so. During the Middle Ages you could not find a Christian in Europe who did not believe that the Crusades were an act of highest good. Even the Muslims respected the ideals of the Crusades and the piety of the men who fought them.
But that all changed with the Protestant Reformation. For Martin Luther, who had already jettisoned the Christian doctrines of papal authority and indulgences, the Crusades were nothing more than a ploy by a power-hungry papacy.
Indeed, he argued that to fight the Muslims was to fight Christ himself, for it was he who had sent the Turks to punish Christendom for its faithlessness. When Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his armies began to invade Austria, Luther changed his mind about the need to fight, but he stuck to his condemnation of the Crusades. During the next two centuries people tended to view the Crusades through a confessional lens: Protestants demonized them, Catholics extolled them. As for Suleiman and his successors, they were just glad to be rid of them.
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/print2005/tmadden_crusades_print.html
Yup. Any Catholic on this board who doesn’t think the same thing can’t and won’t happen in a Catholic Cathedral (oh, like maybe St Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC with the blessing of the Modernist Dolan) is living in a dream world.
We can “thank” John XXIII and Paul VI for that, not Martin Luther.