Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Crusades and the Reading of History

The actual history of the Crusades has been very slanted aganst the Church in modern histories, as has so much, i.e. The Pilgrims, Columbus, Lincoln, etc. The Crusades thematically were to combat moslem takeover of the holy land and to protect pilgrims. I will concede that as with any enterprise sin, no doubt, came into the mix. But we should take care in the modern historians take on the subject. There certainly is an anti-christian bias and this seems especially evident in the modern comentaries on the Crusades. We must take great care in not holding history in a fashionable light. For then we will certainly be wrong in our reading.

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