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By modern definition, the crusade is defined as a religious war conducted against the peoples and states deemed enemies of the religious authority. The crusade was a holy war ordered by God himself, and seen by many as a staple of christian history. In 2003, the Daily Express compared the American-lead attack on Iraq as a modern crusade. On the other side, Muslim writers did the exact same, only that they saw the crusade as western, christian imperialism. In both of these views, Christianity is intrinsically tied to the use of violence.
This modern perspective on the history of christianity isn't wrong by any means. We've all heard about violence conducted in the name of God. I'm not here to bash historical or modern christians, nor critique the religion, but if you look at the source material in the bible, the idea of crusades are ludicrious, heretical even. Jesus told his followers to turn the other cheek, and to even love their enemies. Yet in 1090, the crusaders had no problem with putting Jews and Muslims to the sword. How could this possibly been justified? Just what happened in those thousand years between the death of christ, and the crusades? What led to the militarization of christianity?
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Gud vill det! - Dick Harrison
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