On 8/17/2010 1:59 PM, Bob W wrote:
John,
I prefer to think of it as a missile toting congregation, a modern update
of the
Crusaders.
Follow our god or die, infidel!
Regards, Bob S.
The Crusades were not about converting people to Christianity, they were
about trying to capture the so-called holy land from the Muslims. The
Muslims already 'follow our god'.
There were some internal European crusades which were intended to eliminate
heresy, eg against the Cathars in France, but by definition the heretics
already believed in the same god as the Pope; their heresy was preferring to
break their eggs at a different end from him.
Bob
There were many reasons for the Crusades to "Recapture the Holy Lands",
took place. European Christians didn't much care if the Musalman held
"The Holy Lands", as long as Pilgrims were unmolested. For a while that
was true. However a change in regime led to the persicution of said
pilgrims. Eventually the local muslems in charge realized that the
wealth of Jeruslem was brought by the Christian pilgrims and reinstated
the original more or less benign policies, but by then that "Casus
belli" existed and the wars were on. Of course there were other
reasons, including but not exclusively, The Turks invasion of Anatolia
pressing on the Eastern Empire, a surfeit of Noble younger sons looking
to make a name for themselves and capture their own lands, etc.
--
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral
bankruptcy."
-Woody Allen
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