The Crusades and the inquisition were a terrible time in history for sure. Is comparing terrorism of today with the Crusades and inquisitions a way of saying "look they did it 1000 years ago so I guess they have a right to do it today"? Is it a way of saying "How can we judge those poor radical Islamic terrorist for doing what they do when Christians did horrible things 1000 years ago"? I think we should just skip the historical comparisons and just accept the fact that today's ring of terrorism is just wrong and needs to stop.
2007-07-16 05:37:46 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, and only the "real" Christians did it, not us Protestants because we are not real.
2007-07-16 05:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't say "How can we judge those poor radical Islamic terrorist for doing what they do when Christians did horrible things 1000 years ago?"
The Muslim radicals are just some idiots that rats have eaten most of the brains of. The past shouldn't effect the present and for those idiot radicals that can't forget the time of the crusades - that sure is one long grudge!
I agree that the terror should stop but it won't til these radicals realize that suicide bombers are not martyrs and wont go to heaven.
edit: Yes I know that the pope and Christian kings let a lot happen during the crusades. The knights of the crusades did unspeakable things to the Muslims, especially when most of them were teen age boys.
Rape, torture, sodomy, murder are only some of the things they did and the popes condoned it.
2007-07-16 09:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by julie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Crusades are brought up by Muslims and their dhimmis to somehow justify the violence perpetrated in the name of Islam. On closer examination, the comparison with the Crusades weakens the Jihadist position even further.
The Crusades can be seen as a reaction to the Islamic Jihad. Islam spread by the sword from the Arabian peninsula to the rest of the Middle East and North Africa in 400 years. Muslims had conquered Spain and attempted to invade France until driven back by Charles Martel in 732. As late as 1683, the battle of Vienna, the Muslims have attempted to spread Islam into Europe by force.
Palestine, Syria, Egypt etc had a mix of Christians, Jews and Pagans living there until the Muslims invaded. If anything, the Crusades can be seen as a delayed reaction to centuries of Islamic aggression.
There's still no excuse for the Inquisition, though.
2007-07-16 05:48:16 · answer #3 · answered by damnyankeega 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think people use it to try to say that religion is a source of violence and causes nothing but trouble for society.
This thinking is not true, but it seems that many believe that.
In comparing terrorism to the crusades or the inquisition, many show their ignorance of all three. They are not alike, and most of what today's lay person knows concerning the crusades and inquisition, is wrong. Again, misinformation abounds and those propagating it never bother to check their references.
The Crusades were a series of defensive wars against Islamic aggression in the Middle Ages and attempts to recapture the Holy Land from Muslim conquerors in order to allow safe pilgrimage and to protect and maintain the Christian presence there.
http://www.fisheaters.com/crusades.html
The inquisitions (there were 3) have been grossly exaggerated and taken out of context. As recent scholarship has shown, both Protestants and secularists, from the 16th century to the present, have wildly exaggerated the evils of the Inquisition in order to further their own ends, creating straw demons of inquisitors and popes alike. Sadly, these errors have been repeated so often that they have become “facts.”
Pope John Paul II said: From these painful moments of the past a lesson can be drawn for the future, leading all Christians to adhere fully to the sublime principle stated by the Council: “The truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth, as it wins over the mind with both gentleness and power.”2
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0029.html
2007-07-16 05:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they seem to be a sprint comparable i think of. Crusades became arranged by Pope himself for the treasures of East.like the Oil Wars of at present.And whilst they got here to the midsection East they killed Muslims and Jews in accordance to history.you are able to define it as a state terrorism or faith terrorism. If we glance at present you cant see an Islamic military to invade a Christian united states like Christians did in Crusades.yet Islamic terrorist artwork like Hashashins.The beginning of those suicide bombs comes from Hashashin assasins.We cant see it as a state terrorism yet faith terrorism.because of the fact each united states interior the international helps terrorism and that they dont try this on floor yet secretly.yet with the aid of media each so often we confirm who's helping to terrorists. temporarily,The Crusades became a organic-Christian based journey yet terrorism has a lot aspects that's Christian or Muslim or from non-Abrahamic religions.
2016-10-03 22:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by rouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many times does it have to be written in here that the crusades were not carried out by Christians? Think about it; who was fed to the lions and used as human candles for Nero's garden parties? Would they be Christians? How then was it Christians who carried out the Vatican's Crusades and Inquisitions? The ones who, under Constantine, carried out the Crusades were Roman thugs who ransacked Jerusalem killing Jews and early Christians by the thousands. Research The "Childrens Crusade" and find out for yourself if it was biblical Christians who perpetrated the blodshed and slavery. The early Christians were no more associated with the crusades and inquisitions than Einstein was with the slaughter of Jews during WW2 under Hitler. As for the muslim's, they've been taking their marching orders from the vatican for the last 1800 years. Their Ayatollahs know this, but the poor schmuck blowing himself up for "alluh" doesn't. The vatican and the ayatollahs have a very close relationship.
2007-07-16 05:53:16 · answer #6 · answered by RIFF 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think they are saying terrorism is OK because of the Inquisition. I think some of us are saying religions are easily used for evil and provide the Crusades, Inquisition and modern day terrorist acts for examples.
2007-07-16 05:40:39 · answer #7 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No...I think it as having an evolutionary value. Don't misunderstand me for I think it should stop and is very cruel. The Islamics are as volatile, intolerant, and violent today as were the Christians about the time of the Inquisition. If they don't blow themselves up or create a scenario where they blow someone else up, they may evolve into a more tolerant view. Personally I believe all sky fairy religions to be superstitions and based on emotion and emotional hallucinations but some things are better off to allow a natural realization to occur for I believe this Iraq war we're now in is a classical example of trying to "force" our kind of democracy on a society that is not ready for it.
2007-07-16 05:40:53 · answer #8 · answered by Don W 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The people who are trying to compare Islamic terrorism to the crusades are Muslims trying to deflect their guilt.
2007-07-16 06:53:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are frequently compared because Christians like to come off as perfectly peace loving, tolerant people when their entire history (even recent) is full of hatred and violence. It's done to make them realize that their religion is no better than that of "those Muslim terrorists"
While the crusades were by far worse than modern day terrorism (because they were indeed church sanctioned) , I agree that terrorism in all forms needs to stop.
2007-07-16 05:43:57 · answer #10 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
first of all terrorism has no religion..... it is plain human desire to dominate others by putting fear into other peoples mind.... i belive no religion teaches one man to kill another for the sake of what they belive in... any type of war where human blood is shed is against all religion..... coming back to the point, you are right in saying that "today's ring of terrorism is just wrong and needs to stop"... but wrong in saying "Islamic terrorist ".
by the way, i am an INDIAN and a hindu by religion. we Indians belive in secularism, and belive that everyone has the right to choose what they belive in. the Islamic view is no different than Vedism (thats what i like to call my religion), or the Christian view, the basics are the same " be nice to your fellow humans, live and let live", it is us who deviate meanings.
from the MAHABHARATAS, the CRUSADES and the JIHADS..... every where human blood is shed ... so all people involved in it have wrong ideas about their religion.
people like NELSON MANDELLA, MOTHER TERESSA and MAHATMA GANDHI, etc. prove my point.
2007-07-16 05:58:52 · answer #11 · answered by pushkardey 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋