2006-12-14 18:38:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
they didn't. they just wanted to take the holy land back from the muslims who didn't belong there.
2006-12-14 18:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
During the Crusades, only the monks had the Bible. They interpreted what the scriptures meant to everyone else.
Several crusades began with the pope of their time, saying that the holy land needed to be taken back from the heathens. They declared that God wasn't happy, and that they needed to prove their superiority of faith and conviction by undergoing this trial of their worthiness.
This eventually worked against the church at the time since their losses outnumbered their gains.
2006-12-15 02:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Mr O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't. The Crusaders were acting under orders of the Roman Catholic Church. At that time, the RCC had a bind on the people - no one could own a bible, and all bibles were only available in Latin, ensuring that the people were ignorant.
The RCC wanted the extra land to expand its empire. Thus the Crusades.
Anything can be justified when the people requiring justification are ignorant to the facts.
2006-12-15 02:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They did not use the Bible whatsoever. They were illiterate. The Catholic church told them all they needed to know. The crusades were not about the Catholic religion verses the Muslim religion. It was about land! The Muslims were doing just what Mohamed had told them to do. Kill the infidel, and take all that was his. They had taken all of the middle east, all of north Africa, Portugal, Spain and about half of France, before the Catholic church decided that the political solution was no solution at all, and went to war in order to save Europe, and when you are fighting an enemy like the Muslims, you have to kick them all the way back home, or suffer the consequences of not defeating them completely.
2006-12-15 02:48:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vatican empowered the Crusaders on a mission to provide safe passage for the Catholic faithful in their pilgrimages to and from Jerusalem.
Anyone along their routes who was a "heathen", a "pagan", or an "infidel" and who refused to convert to Catholicism was subject to be EXECUTED by them right on the spot.
Their battle cry was: "Kill in the name of *God*!"
Same thing happened during the Spanish Inquisition and other witch hunts that followed later, which also accounted for the death of multitudes.
Peace be with you.
2006-12-15 02:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows, whether they used the bible or not they never used biblical principles that is for sure.
2006-12-15 02:48:56 · answer #6 · answered by Ignatious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
also the spanish inquisition. i have yet to hear all the "perversions" that happened to the bible but the pope ordered it and it truly wasnt under the spirit of christanity.......or so my teacher says haha
2006-12-15 02:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Red Eye 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christians use the bible often to justify murder and genocide. It doesn't have to be specific as they are easy to persuade and love killing.
2006-12-15 02:41:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Please do not confuse followers of christ (christians ) with the Catholics. The Catholics are not followers of Christ they are a cult and serve satan only and have nothing to do with Chist.
2006-12-15 05:06:02 · answer #9 · answered by Thomas A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them were illiterate. When the priest or king told them God wanted them to go out and kill, they just had not counter argument.
2006-12-15 02:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋