Religion is very rarely, if ever, genuinely the cause of conflict in the world. It is simply an excuse. After all, what higher justification is there for anything than to say that an act of aggression is the will of God? The Crusades were one of the earliest conflicts in which a military force fought under the banner of Christianity. Many men travelled thousands of miles across Europe to the Holy Land at a time of great hardship at home in order to find a better life. The vast majority feared God and participants were promised redemption from their sins on the Crusade. Yet others travelled...
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