A couple things ------
WHY ARE THE STORIES IN THE BIBLE SO UNBELIEVABLEY UNBELIEVABLE???
You must remember this first: the Bible is a couple thousand years old. Several times it has been translated into different languages. The Greeks translated it. The Germans had it translated. The Anglicans, Spanish, blah blah blah blah blah!!!!! What relevance does this have? Imagine a TV. Imagine you record something from the tv onto a vhs. Then imagine that you record the info from the vhs to another one, and another, and another, and another.... eventually, the information gets really distorted or is lost, right? Same case here. The Greeks did a translation of it first, I believe, and the Greeks tend to glorify things. Doesn't the parting of the Red Sea sound like some Greek Myth? Also, what about Adam and Eve? Think about it! Also, the story was most likely exaggerate, this I know because: The area Moses supposedly crossed, was known to be exetremely shallow in the winter, revealing crossings, and in the spring, huge rains could suddenly sweep down and quickly flood the paths across the sea. It was early, early spring when Moses crossed the Sea, and He was a couple of miles ahead of the pharoa's army. Another thing: When the USA still had slaves, the slave owners would send slaves to church. The priests, when they noticed several slaves present, would preach from the Bible about how slaves were supposed to be loyal to their masters. Does that really sound like something Jesus would say? Heck no. There had to be some sort of distortion of info or an added section in a translation somewhere.
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THE CRUSADES---------
Why did Europe attack the Middle East?
For VERY good reasons, let me tell you! They didn't simply go and attack them simply because they weren't christians. They went and attacked them for multiple reasons. They:
1.Were growing like a weed into European borders.
2.The Byzantines had called for help against the Turks.
3.The turks destroyed several churches and important Christian religous points in their conquests.
4.The middle east was always the aggressor (The Moors in Spain and France, the Ottoman turks in Asia minor and near Italy, the Seljuk turks in Byzantium, The islamic Jihad.)
It's true that the wars were somewhat religous, but, the other reasons for going to war must also be considered, for they were good reasons.