The truth about the crusades

[PaulSacramento]

The historical truth about the crusades, from an atheist:
https://youtu.be/-ilFbbk9jw4

[edwardmurphy]

I'm skeptical when someone tells me they have "the truth" about something, especially when the topic is as complex as the Crusades and their information comes mostly from Wikipedia.

If I watch the video will I learn that everything is Islam's fault?

[PaulSacramento]

I'm skeptical when someone tells me they have "the truth" about something, especially when the topic is as complex as the Crusades and their information comes mostly from Wikipedia.

If I watch the video will I learn that everything is Islam's fault?

That depends on your POV of course.
In a fight, is it the fault of the person that starts the fight and throws multiple punches BEFORE the other guy hits back ??

[edwardmurphy]

My POV is that we should put aside the partisan BS and deal with facts. Conflict between the East and West predates both Christianity and Islam. Remember the Greeks/Macedonians and the Persians? Or the Romans and the Parthians? Or the Romans/Byzantines and the Sassanids? The Crusades were a flare-up in a conflict that was 1,000 years old when Muhammad was born.

[Jac3510]