Christianity could be a higher order way of organizing lives

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What? No. You can't talk about "The Crusades" as though they were a single entity.

Some were church sanctioned, some weren't.
Some were attempts to expand Christendom, which is BEING the invading warlords, not fighting them.
Some were meant to safeguard pilgrimages to holy sites in Eastern Europe, while others were simply pillaging Muslim lands.
Many went rogue and did way more than what the church originally sanctioned them to do.
Some ended up attacking and raiding Christian lands, just 'cause they were raiders with no official target at the time.


The Crusades were many, individual military campaigns, some church sanctioned and some not. Some offensive and some defensive.

Taking back lands that were acquired by killing Christian ancestors, in the face of the perpetual conquest of the same accord.