What were the Christian crusades?
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What were the Christian crusades? Why did Christian invade the Middle East during the Middle Ages? Were the crusaders even really Christians?
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- What were the Christian Crusades? We're going to answer that question. You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org
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- The Crusades have provided some of the most frequent arguments against the Christian faith.
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- Some Islamic terrorists even claimed that their terrorist attacks are revenge for what Christians did in the
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- Crusades. So, what were the Crusades and why are they viewed as such a big problem for the
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- Christian faith? First of all, the Crusades should not be referred to as the Christian Crusades.
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- Most of the people involved in the Crusades were not truly Christians, even though they claimed to be.
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- The name of Christ was abused, misused, and blasphemed by the actions of many of the
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- Crusaders. Second, the Crusades took place from approximately AD 1095 to 1230.
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- Should the unbiblical actions of supposed Christians hundreds of years ago still be held against Christians today?
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- Third, not that this is an adequate excuse, but Christianity is not the only religion with a violent past.
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- In actuality, the Crusades were responses to Muslim invasions on what was once land occupied primarily by Christians.
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- From approximately AD 200 to 900, the land of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey was inhabited primarily by Christians.
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- Once Islam became powerful, Muslims invaded these lands and brutally oppressed, enslaved, deported, and even murdered the
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- Christians living in those lands. In response, the Roman Catholic Church and Christian kings and emperors from Europe ordered the
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- Crusades to reclaim the land the Muslims had taken. The actions that many so -called Christians took in the
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- Crusades were still deplorable. There is no biblical justification for conquering lands, murdering civilians, and destroying cities in the name of Jesus Christ.
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- At the same time, Islam is not a religion that can speak from a position of innocence in these matters.
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- To summarize briefly, the Crusades were attempts in the 11th through 13th centuries
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- AD to reclaim land in the Middle East that had been conquered by Muslims. The Crusades were brutal and evil.
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- Many people were forced to convert to Christianity. If they refused, they were put to death.
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- The idea of conquering a land through war and violence in the name of Christ is completely unbiblical.
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- Many of the actions that took place in the Crusades were completely antithetical to everything the
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- Christian faith stands for. How can we respond when, as a result of the Crusades, the Christian faith is attacked by atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and those of other religions?
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- We can respond in the following ways. Do you want to be held accountable for the actions of people who lived 900 plus years ago?
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- Do you want to be held accountable for the actions of everyone who claims to represent your faith? Trying to blame all of Christianity for the
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- Crusades is analogous to blaming all Muslims for Islamic terrorism. That answers the question, what were the
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