In Defense of the Crusades

Evil and unjust things DID occur during the Crusades.

But the principle behind why the Crusades took place - that was a good thing.

From Brian Holdsworth (featured in this video)
”So when I say that the Crusades are a good thing, I mean that in the same way that the fact that the Allies decided to fight WWII against Nazis was a good thing.

But the Allies committed war crimes and killed countless civilians in their campaigns against the Axis powers. Yes, that’s true, but that doesn’t mean that the war itself was, in principle, wrong.”

Disagree? I recommend watching the full video from Brian Holdsworth “In Defense of the Crusades”

Audio and visual from: Brian Holdsworth

Crusade footage from: Knightfall

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[craigjonker]

This man looks like if the giga chad meme was Scottish

[eliafeda]

I will help this man out, the crusades were a series of DEFENSIVE WARS , that were enacted in order to help defend the Byzantine empire from Muslim attacks with the Byzantine empire asked for the crusades to live in the land they gave to the Byzantine empire, but they took it for themselves

[jaredflynn]

as a catholic I'm proud of our fallen defenders who gave their lives half way across the world to prevent Christendom from being taken over by Muslims who had been a constant aggressor to Europe for centuries.

[durere]

Yea, don't explain anything and expect results.

[the_diplomat]

For what benefit the Crusades did for Christendom, it did so while damaging Eastern Rome and hampering union between Orthodoxy and Catholicism.

The Crusades, in the context of defending Christianity, IS justified. But in the context of PRESERVING Christianity, it simply paved the way for Catholic dominance.

[RassBrass]

In principle they were a good thing 😂 but they were carried out with mass killings and atrocities inherited from imperial Rome. And that’s a fact! It got so bad that Catholic Christians crusaders mass murdering orthodox Arab and Persian Christians

[thecesso]

On what principle are we talking about?

[ShawnWeeded]

What part of using the bible to promise salvation in exchange for mass slaughter is a good thing??

[MJKW]

Can they say 9/11 was in self defense?

[VergilGaming]

who's gonna tell this dude about how "good" the 4th crusade was?? 💀

[spadesofalife]

They weren’t a good thing but people fighting for their beliefs is badass

[mohamednashar]

Also that Pope Urban II wanted to re-establish the Church's position as the overarching ruler over Christian Kingdoms

[danforthman]

Hard to talk about Christianity and principles simultaneously

[rezaganjizadeh]

"As a muslim, I support Jihad"
Imagine the comments

[mitchellguidry]

Discovery and importation of eastern goods to northern and western Europe developing a merchant/middle class - eventually leading to a search for a westerly route to the orient resulting in the discovery of the north and south American continents, the discovery of the works of Aristotle (in Arabic from Greek) and other works of Islamic scholars developing scientific knowledge in Europe, the drafting and signing of the Magna Carta; just to name some benefits of the Crusades.

[Joshwa]

Don't want to expand on that? Just drop this stupid line and be done?

[Zen-sxio]

Is It me or does the short cut out too early?

[ELMLVIN]

The kingdom of Jesus is not from this world❤

[syedsuhaibdawarki]

As a Muslim its not anyway about good or bad but about utter barbarism of crusaders
That shocked the Muslim world and the slaughter of innocent people including

orthodox Christianity in the holy city which they thought of as Muslim because of attire
In fact none of the crusade had a real impact on Muslim world geography except the first one which was able to get substantial end result wanted rest ended in no achivement except bloodsheeding on both side infact the crusade led to counter brutality from islam side in the form of Ottoman European war which was very different from the arab Byzantine Empire wars which were peacful in the scence that innocent people were never attached e.g the capture of damuscus in fact the early arab conquest created conjoined communities living in peace e.g Christians continue to live in peace in Egypt known s coptic Christians even though iraq syria Egypt are cradles of Islam and have remained in Muslim control almost unitterupted and anyone crazy i know who want to say nonsense to me about why are they being killed now i can thank america for giving wepons to so called freedom fighters who act like nothing but gangs therefore thanks usa bye any feedback do tell

[calebgovind]

The acts many of the soldiers did was not very Christian but the defending of The ppl were good