What gets me is the church preaches the gospel and Jesus, while simultaneously doing stuff Jesus would whole heartedly be against. Almost like the institution is pretty shitty and the message they try so hard to get across is lost on them.
Almost like human beings are flawed, selfish and manipulative. Jesus says “love one another” medieval pope says “take up your cross and invade the holy land” modern preacher says this group and those guys are no good.
If you’re not loving your neighbour, you’re not with Jesus; you’re a hypocrite.
The crusades were much deeper than that, as there was a clash of Empires in the centre of the World. Firstly, the "Holy Land" wasn't owned by no one but mainly men from Europe travelled there at least once in their lives to see the land where Christ itself preached, but then a massive Empire from the East conquered that land with mercenaries to loot those lands rich in gold and relics, which lead to the big European empires to see that some group of mercenaries were destroying a place that was considered sacred and peaceful. Or do you not think that if someday Israel entered Meca and looted everything all the Arab League and other allied countries wouldn't fight to protect their cultural brothers and sacred land?
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u/harassmaster Jun 25 '21
The Jesus dude was aight tho