One of the most famous examples of religious violence in the Middle Ages is of course the Crusades - attempts by European Christians to impose their vision of religion upon Jews, heretics, Muslims, and just about anyone else who happened to get in the way. Traditionally the term "Crusades" are limited to describing massive military expeditions by Christians to the Middle East, but it is more accurate to acknowledge that there also existed "crusades" internal to Europe and directed at local minority groups.
Amazingly, the Crusades have often been remembered in a romantic fashion, but perhaps nothing has deserved it less. Hardly a noble quest in foreign lands, the Crusades represented the worst in religion generally and in Christianity specifically. The broad historical outlines of the Crusades are available in most history books, so I will instead present some examples of how greed, gullibility and violence played such important roles.
Not all crusades were led by kings greedy for conquest, although they certainly didn't hesitate when they had a chance. An important fact often overlooked is that the crusading spirit which gripped Europe throughout the High Middle Ages had particularly religious roots. Two systems which emerged in the church deserve special mention has having contributed greatly: penance and indulgences. Penance was a type of worldly punishment, and a common form was a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands. Pilgrims resented the fact that sites holy to Christianity were not controlled by Christians, and they were easily whipped into a state of agitation and hatred towards Muslims. Later on, crusading itself was regarded as a holy pilgrimage - thus, people paid penance for their sins by going off and slaughtering adherents of another religion. Indulgences, or waivers of temporal punishment, were granted by the church to anyone who contributed monetarily to the bloody campaigns.
Christianity and Violence: Crusades
A very good read
Dirty, Filthy, Christians
In this, Mr. Booth’s last book, and the culmination of his devotion to the truth at all personal costs, you will learn the honest and horrific truth about the origins of the Christian Death Cult and how for the past 1,000 years the deception, and tactics, of this death cult have used an imaginary historical religious figures named Jesus Christ to create our present World which now, and deliberately, stands upon the brink of a destruction so total that nearly all of humanity will be exterminated.
This book will also show you why in the 12th Century a Welsh Prince named Madog left his homeland for America to establish a World counterforce to this Christian Death Cult but which in the centuries that have followed have been hunted down to near extinction by the deliberate European and American extermination of indigenous peoples on every continent on Earth as the truth of Mr. Booth’s words have always been known.
You will also be introduced in this book to the research of Dr. Anatoly Timofeevich of the Russian Academy of Sciences whose research details in great depth that:
“The so-called consensual history is a finely woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the 16th Century. There is not a single piece of firm written evidence or artifact that could be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the 11th Century. The archeological, dendrochronological, palegraphical and carbon methods of dating of ancient courses are both non-exact and contradictory.”
It goes without saying that our publication of this book will bring upon us much trouble and controversy, including threats to our lives as the Christian Death Cult knows only conflict, misery, subjugation, lies and deceit to both further their message of death and keep their adherents under their strict control.
