“We could use a 21st century crusade. Given what the local ruling families are doing with Israel and Hamas I suspect they’d be welcomed.”
Over the decades I stopped listening to priests and preachers condemning the Crusades.
When they start that bs, I stop them and say, “If the crusades had not happened, none of us would be alive today and attending a Christian religious services.”
None have tried to repute what I said.
You’re right. History’s being taught all wrong. It’s Christianity and the absolute nuclear family that created Western Civ, not anything else. We have living examples of where other religions, cultures and family systems lead. The most common family system is tribal - it didn’t work for the American Indians, Africans, ME or SA or CA or Asia.
The industrial revolution is a function of Christian values and the absolute nuclear family. We owe the jutes and Germans a lot. Go look at world GDP and you’ll see the massive explosion in welfare and wealth. That came from England and later the US. That’s history.