Why do use the "Christianity is to blame for all of these lives lost during the crusades..."?

Question

Come on, that was centuries ago. What does that have to do with modern day Christianity? It also has nothing to do with Protestant Christianity, and the Catholic church is a far cry from what it was like during the Medieval time!!

If you absolutely have to go after Christianity, would you stop blaming the religion for what happened hundreds of years ago? PLEASE relate it to a modern day example instead???? The crusades were done in the Middle Ages.

Using that as an excuse to hate Christianity is like blaming any 20th century US administration for slavery which happened prior to the US Civil War?

Answer 1

The Crusades weren't even representative of the entirety of Christianity in those days. The Crusades were about power, wealth and land, not spreading the Gospel. They were initiated by political leaders, not religious ones.

Answer 2

Christianity becomes accepted primarily through indoctrination. A young child is taken to church, told a bunch of stuff as if it is true, with virtually no questioning of the validity of the information. As they grow there may then be group pressure to not resist or disagree. Churches get preferential tax treatment and many legal advantages that allows them to proliferate.

But what made all that possible was centuries of "convert or die" policy as Christianity was forced down the throats of one group after another.

As for current times would Billy Bob Redstater be so flippant about tens of thousands of civilians slaughtered in the middle east in the past 6 years if they weren't primarily non-Christians?

Answer 3

Who is to blame for all the deaths at the hands of the Crusaders then? It surely wasn't atheists urging them onward on their murderous trek.

Christianity is an antiquated relic from days when people believed in ghosts and other such rubbish. It has long outlived any usefulness it once may have had.

Answer 4

The Crusades were ordered by the Pope to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims. They were fighting to preserve what they believed in. A martyr is someone who fights to preserve what they believe in. If i remember correctly, in the Bible, it states that Christian martyrs will have a special place in heaven. So they were not only fighting for what they believed in, but also to become a Christian martyr. =)

Answer 5

We bring up the Crusades and the Inquistion whenever Christians make the argument that their faith makes them more moral than the rest of us.

Its a valid point.

The reason Christians don't do that sort of thing today is that their are plenty of secular forces at work in our culture now. Christianity isn't the ONLY influence in our lives. We also believe in tolerance, democracy, and liberty. These values are NOT christian values, though most christians share them to some extent.

If the Enlightenment hadn't happened, rest assured, we'd be invading muslim countries, killing abortion doctors, and trying to get Christianity written into law. OH CRAP! That HAS happened!

Answer 6

ok how about westboro baptist church in Kansas. They picket and protest funerals of soldiers and walk on American flags.
They are currently right this minute planning their crusades

Would you like another example? maybe you would rather talk about the east coast, the west coast, we got all day

Answer 7

The KKK operated under the banner of the Cross and Christianity.

Answer 8

That is true.

But you have to remember history repeats itself. And the foundational events that allowed the crusades, inquisition, etc. to occur HAVEN'T gone away!

Answer 9

C'mon Hilter and Stalin were decades ago why use it as a response to insult atheism?

Answer 10

Protestants killed women in Salem not all that long ago. Christians in the South have certain groups that attack gays and pagans, and sometimes kill them. It still happens.