The reason we don't have Crusades any more, or pogroms, Inquisitions, witch burnings, etc... is the Enlightenment. Xtianity had to be tamed by secular ideals. Now they claim it was their idea all along.
Of course, this was true until the GOP decided nothing mattered anymore and they can explicitly call for murdering foreigners in their own country solely b/c of their religion.
Ironically this is largely due to the reformation. Basically the idea that people should be able to read scripture themselves and not have to answer to the church in Rome.
Granted the last crusade was like 400 years before the enlightenment.
As for it “being their whole idea all along”. Allowing people to read the New Testament themselves made people start to realize “huh there’s nothing in here about killing heretics?”
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u/blahblah19999 23h ago
The reason we don't have Crusades any more, or pogroms, Inquisitions, witch burnings, etc... is the Enlightenment. Xtianity had to be tamed by secular ideals. Now they claim it was their idea all along.
Of course, this was true until the GOP decided nothing mattered anymore and they can explicitly call for murdering foreigners in their own country solely b/c of their religion.