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”The Crusades began with a shout of ‘God wills it!’ and ended with a whimper of defeat. The concept of converting the world by the sword and fighting as an army of Jesus Christ had led to three hundred years of strife and bloodshed. Armies were regularly gathering under the banner of...

This is what you‘re defending @Wrangler and @Armour of God. Don’t look away now. “The result was horrifying. As many as fifty thousand were sold into slavery. More died of starvation. Still others were defeated in their vain attempts to fight. One author recorded: ’About the time of Easter...

It couldn’t get any worse than that, could it? “Yet the darkest hour in Christian history could have been 1212, when Rome allowed the launch of the Children’s Crusade. In a small village near Vendome, France, a twelve-year-old boy named Stephen believed he received a vision. Jesus Christ was...

“The three subsequent Crusades accomplished nothing more than the further blurring of the original purposes for which the Crusades were called and any distinction between Christian and nonbeliever. In the Fourth Crusade (1200-1204), the Roman forces actually attacked Byzantine Christians at...

* I want more than that, but that’s a very good start. *

“To me success has meant just two things: a good life for my family, and the money to buy books and continue the education of this wandering man.” - Louis L’Amour

Constantine doesn’t make anyone Christian.

Should Christians massacre their enemies? (Asking for Richard the Lionheart.) AI responds, “No, the central teaching of Christianity, particularly in the New Testament, is to love your enemies rather than massacre them. While the Old Testament contains accounts of God-ordained warfare and the...

When it becomes “difficult to distinguish between Christian and non-Christian” behavior, it‘s not something for Christians to support and celebrate @Wrangler @Armour of God @NayborBear. We should have learned this in Sunday School. We should have learned this at church.

Resuming now the story (with the memory of the massacre at Malmedy in World War II fresh in our minds) - “King Richard brought twenty-seven hundred Muslim men outside the city walls, and proceeded to have them slaughtered, one by one. A Muslim historian recorded the horror: ’The king of...

“Through the winter of 1191 and the spring of 1192, Richard laid siege to Acre, a city whete the Muslims were purported to be hiding the ‘true cross of Christ.’ Finally, in July 1192, the Muslims surrendered and promised to return the True Cross, two hundred thousand gold pieces, and two...

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” - Dale Carnegie

I was saving this for later but I’ll go ahead and post it here. It contains some good observations and ends with advice (“Read and study”) that warms the heart and puts a smile on the face of a retired Church History adjunct professor. “To the reader: Knowing that modern evangelicals understand...

Returning now to the Crusades, ”Frederick discovered this deceit in a letter from Sibylla, the former Queen of the Christains in Jerusalem. … Though Frederick would defeat the Turks at Iconium and thwart the conspiracy, he drowned in Armenia shortly thereafter. The crusaders had another...

@Armour of God if the list of names I’ve asked you to compile fails to include the name of the one who believes and is teaching others that “Jesus lied,” then you’re going to have some serious explaining to do. @Wrangler @NayborBear