The crusade and the crusades of today. Question 1> Is religion just a coverup for war? Question 2> why has war and religion always been walking hand in hand?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:14:26
Category: / History / European History
Length: 7 pages (2013 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 7 pages (2013 words)
'Declare a holy war, call the troops to arm.'
(Joel 3: 9)
The Crusade
Crusading for religion, greed and peace.
I quote myself:
'Religion and war is the same thing, control of the many by the few'
Simon 8E
The first Crusade.
The facts.
The year was 1095 and the Arabs had for over 400 years been controlling the sacred land, Palestine. Arabs at that time wasn't called Arabs but they where called Mohammedans or "the unfaithful" by …
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…of a religion, does not justify war. The legal system does not permit that, instead will call the person mental. Many people will die because of religious conflicts. When will people learn killing over a minor difference in belief, is an act of stupidity, and learn to talk about it then fighting.
'The boot wore in combat and the robe coloured by blood,
All this shall be incinerated, and consumed by the flames...'
(Jesaja 9:5)
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