The Crusades I don´t know if you have heard that in the past the catholic church committed many crimes, I think the most unforgivable one is killing people who had a different belief “in the name of God”. Historians called this period the crusades and I´m going to share my opinion, hold on, probably you won´t like it or accept it. The crusades began in 1096 and ended in 1291. In this period, Europe was looking for more territories to conquer because population was growing and because of the desire of economic growth. Many wars occurred and the reasons were desire of expansion or protect the empire. In the case of the crusades, the main goals were to make Muslims go out of Jerusalem, the Holy Land, where Jesus lived, and to make Catholicism remain. In this time, the Church had more authority than kings, therefore, what the Pope said was the final word.
After this background, I think the Church disrespected the laws of God, I mean the commandments, specifically: do not kill and do not lie. However, the Church had an army which emblem was a red cross, and they killed in the name of God and they also lie to people saying that the just want to recover Jerusalem and make Catholicism remain, but those were not the only reasons. On the other hand, Jesus (son of God) before dying, he had a chat with “The Devil” who, according to the literature, showed him what would happen, and the crusades were part of it and, even though, he knew it he decided to sacrifice himself for us. So, was in vane? I mean, he never killed people, he just predicated, gave love to people and healed them physically and spiritually. Why the church didn´t do the same? Because of interests, Jesus didn´t want power or economic benefits, he wanted to heal humanity, peace. I think the crusades showed the nature of humanity, they´ll do anything in order to achieve their goals and moved by their own interests, ignoring the effects in other people. In addition, analyzing history, church killed many people who didn´t believe thousands of times. It happened in Spain, before they conquered/invaded America and in South America when Spanish were here. All in all, I think crusades show disrespect to God´s law, show lack of open mind and lack of creative because I think there could be a peaceful way to make Catholicism remain.
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