Inquisition?
Witch hunts?
Someone had mentioned it http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070307074154AAs1gXg&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMhjdXWD1K3qnd32ajQCEzNSnsrHKPnkuoEQ--&paid=answered#AKIrCUDJUVezHTBXcuJP and I was just wondering.
2007-03-07 02:54:08 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think if you took a poll of Christians today, 90% of them wouldn't know what the Crusades were....or the Inquisition for that matter.
2007-03-07 02:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I do not apologize for the Crusades. They were a belated defense of the Western World against the Muslims who had entered Europe over three centuries before the First Crusade was even called. The reason the Middle East was "peaceful" is because the Muslims killed or enslaved most of the Jewish and Christian population that lived in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, and the Eastern Mediterranean almost to the gates of Constantinople before Pope Urban II was convinced by a letter from the Byzantine Emperor in the 1090s to come to the aid of the Middle East. This, coupled with a massive Muslim slaughter on Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land in the 1060s was finally enough to awaken the west to the real threat that Islam posed not just to the Byzantines but also to the rest of Europe. Though atrocities were committed in the name of the Christian God that are antithetical in nature to Christian philosophy, the IDEA of the Crusades to finally defend ourselves against an opponent that wished to wipe us out, was completely justified.
2007-03-07 03:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by Crusader1189 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No-one living today was involved in any of those historical occurrences, so no-one has anything to be "sorry" about. As for the Crusades, no, I am not sorry that they prevented Mohammedan barbarians from overrunning Europe! If it had not been for the Crusades, Europe would have become a collection of Muslim states. And so would the United States, since it was initially settled by Europeans.
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2007-03-07 03:13:18 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians as a group did not perpetrate the Crusades. It was an aberration of one group or sect.
Are you sorry for enslaving the people taken by force from Africa? Are you sorry for the genocide against the Native Americans? Are you sorry for everything that those in power have done down through history, regardless of what nation? How about the millions Stalin killed and Hitler, how sorry are you for that? What about ancient Rome's persecution of Chrisitans? That one on your consicence?
2007-03-07 03:04:18 · answer #4 · answered by cmw 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't me. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing.
Seriously, do you feel guilty that at some point in the distant past, the tribe of your ancestors probably pushed some other tribe off of their land, possibly killing and/or enslaving some of them in the process? That they were successful is attributed by the fact that you're here today, though there has obviously been a recessive gene that has come out, possibly due to inbreeding.
2007-03-07 05:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by Scott T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as collective guilt so there can't be any such thing as collective repentance.
And the majority of Crusaders weren't Christians. The Roman Catholic church offered absolution if one engaged in the Crusade - in other words, a person was 'buying' their salvation by going to war. That is not a Christian concept. Salvation is free for those who trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord.
2007-03-07 03:34:14 · answer #6 · answered by mikey 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think most Christians are in denial of what really happened concerning those things In Catholic school we were taught about the Crusades as Christian heroes. The inquisition or witch hunts-if they should happen to learn something about these things, they will write it off to ancient ignorance; even though, they plead for that old time religion.
2007-03-07 03:01:48 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm not sure if too many people who participated in the Crusades are around anymore. I, meaning this generation, am not responsible for what some misguided European terrorists did a thousand years ago.
They thought they were doing a great thing.
2007-03-07 03:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are Jews sorry for early persecution/killings of Christians? Are Egyptions sorry for enslaving the Hebrew's of Moses's time? My point is it is in the past, no one that was involved is alive anymore. Are you going to hold modern people responsible for the sins of the ancestors?
2007-03-07 03:03:41 · answer #9 · answered by vospire s 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I didn't have anything to do with it. My religion was co-opted to serve the agenda of politicians and people's ignorance was exploited. I believe what is happening with the Islamic faith is going through now is very similar to what happened to Christianity back then.
2007-03-07 03:04:16 · answer #10 · answered by LX V 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋