The crusades, are something liberals bring up all the time in equating Christians with muslims...as if generalized warfare is somehow different for Christians than anyone and everyone else.
Our troops “blow up” bad guys in Afghanistan, but in the liberal mind what distinguishes troops from either side, be it nazis from U.S. troops or whatever, it is merely the uniform.
It’s a curious infliction...cops are no diffeent than criminals and gangs for instance, because both sides carry guns.
In the liberal world, up is down, and down is up.
“In the liberal world, up is down, and down is up.”
I’m confused—is this a religious discussion or a political discussion?
Arguing “Crusades” is far too vague. For example, the First Crusade was a rightful counter-offensive against the Turks, which had been attacking the Byzantines.
But then you had the Siege of Jerusalem, Jews and Muslims fighting together to defend their city, and being mercilessly slaughtered when the Crusaders won. And then there’s the Albigensian Crusade, where Crusaders slaughtered tens of thousands of “heretical” Cathars — and any Catholics still among them too. That was the origin of the phrase, “Kill them all, the Lord will recognise His own.”
Especially in Jerusalem the Christians were far worse than the Muslims, who acted relatively civilized when they took over Jerusalem.