Batcat
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Read the first part of my post again. …Not a student of history are you?![]()
”The really true Christians I have known didn’t run around committing armed robbery or randomly killing people for the hell of it.
I specified those who are true Christians. Not everybody who claims they are Christian understand Christianity is love not violence.
The Crusades are often used to prove the violence of Christianity.

The Crusades by W. Robert Godfrey
The Bible can be a dangerous book if misused and abused. In the history of the church, the misunderstanding of the Bible has led to many serious problems, rangi

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Most importantly, the history of the Crusades must teach us as Christians to recognize the great damage done to Christ by these wars. The very word crusade comes from a French word meaning “the way of the cross,” first used a century after the beginning of the Crusades. What a betrayal of the Christ, who poured out His life on the cross, enduring injustice and making peace, to identify Him with the slaughter of political enemies. As Christians, we must seek always to advance Christ’s cause through truth joined by love and selfsacrifice, not through violence.