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@ Kuba
2025-03-10 10:58:51
The argument with crusades is very wrong. Imagine having your most precious treasure somewhere (you didn’t grab that treasure) and your brothers and sisters living in peace close to that treasure. Someone comes to grab the treasure and prosecute your brothers and sisters. If you, living prosperous life in other place don’t come to risk your life to defend your brothers and sisters then what a man are you? If the crusaders were for grab and robbery then why would they risk and leave their comfortable life? (I am not talking about few traitors who were poor and joined for profit but the noble men who left their families and wealth).
Those who always bring up the crusaders argument will never try to understand why a century before St Paul (together with others) abandoned his comfortable life and embarked on a risky one. What did he gain? I guess they think he was crazy like all other martyrs? 🤔
To sum up, very likely the crusaders story is something very much emphasized by the same propaganda we hear on other subjects today. I read some historians saying the damage of crusades were in fact nowhere near to what is believed.