I think the Crusades were perfectly justified, and I'm a moderate Catholic. Many people have a mistaken picture of them as being violent conflicts by evil Christians against peaceful Muslims living in tolerance and harmony. In reality, it was a reaction against violent, totalitarian theocracy creeping into Europe and conquering it. Christians and Jews lived under the state of the dhimma, that of second class, second rate citizenship (think the state of blacks in segregation era America). Also, Saladin was not the angel he was portrayed as in Kingdom of Heaven and other works of fiction. Saladin was quite brutal, gleefully decapitating prisoners and only relenting from killing all of the Christians in a city because the other side threatened to kill all the Muslims.
Where does the Bible say Jesus' face=God's face?
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