The veteran picked to lead the Defense Department has praised the brutal religious military campaigns of the past and has called for a Christian approach to governing.
  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    81·
    6 days ago

    Lmao, the Crusades were a thinly veiled excuse for looting and pillaging, and every Crusade but the first ended in dismal failure. Only ignoramuses glorify them.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 hours ago

      They were also a response to the encroachment of the ottoman empire into europe and the wholesale depopulation of the entire mediterranean coast by ottoman raiders. If you think the crusades were strictly christian aggression then you havent read any history at all.