[Ksnavely]

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Has everybody forgotten about that little event know as the Reformation?"

That is a total non-sequitur, you say the Catholic Church during the Crusades was not the Christian Church than you now talk about the reformation which happened quite a bit later than the Crusades. I assume when you say Christianity you mean Protestantism (because you seem to define real Christianity under the Protestant terms of scripture and scripture only). So if Protestantism wasn't around during the Crusades, and the Catholic Church was not the Christian Church during the Crusades, then what was the REAL Christian Church at the times of the Crusades?

[usa1776]

Just for a historical note, the Baptist were around since about 400 A.D. Would you call them Protestants? I assume not since the Protestanst didn't come until the reformation.

As already noted in other posts, there were many Christians oppressed by the Catholic Church. No, the Catholic Church was never at any time in history the only "church". It was powerful enough to suppress others at times, it no longer is. The struggle between Christianity and Catholicism has existed since day one of the Catholic Church, and every day since.