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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Actually the crusades started as a land grab, the expansionist Seljuk Turks were threatening constantinople who appealed for help and before you say from fellow Christians, the orthodox byzantines were excommunicated from Rome, religion was used to whip the masses up without doubt and continued the conflict far longer than it should have but like most wars land, resources and ambition were just as much at the heart of it as religion and imo anyone who dismisses these additional factors simply to say "it was all about religion" clearly has an agenda or is a bit ignorant of what happened.
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Thanks for the history lesson. Religion is used for control and your description above shows just that. It's not much different from America and the UK invading Afghanistan and Iraq while blaming Muslims. Using such tactics to justify war is something that will continue to happen, until religion finally dies out.
It is only now we are seeing other religions attempting to interfere with schools and what can be worn in the place of work etc. I expect this will get worse.
Your comment about agenda is misplaced if you are replying to me. In fact that sentence of yours appears to have it's own agenda
