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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Possibly but how many times has religion been made the scapegoat for bad behaviour when in reality it's been man's greed that instigates wars..indeed those so called crusades that were to reclaim the holy land(which we never owned in the first place) were nothing more than an excuse to exploit the situation to extract anything of value in any way possible including hostage taking for monetary gain...
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The crusades cause was due to the expansionist Seljuk Turks threatening Byzantine Constantinople, nothing at all to do with religion, however what happened later like the Jerusalem massacre, the Children's crusade and Peter the Hermit's crusade were sadly caused by religious zeal alone.