Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-26295802-20160614010310/@comment-26295802-20160618184210

Argali1 wrote: Travian Sackett wrote: ^ Plus even the incorrect Christian extremist groups never killed anyone, they just built a fort and hid in it. *cough cough Crusades cough cough Inquisition cough cough KKK did kill people cough cough* I would like to compare the societies. In medieval Europe everything, religious or not, had the name of God stamped on it to make it more popular. Want to claim the throne? Have The Pope support you! Coffers need replentishing? Talk about how you're using it to the "glory of God"! Roman Catholic Christianity wasn't a religion, it was a society. Everything you lived, breathed, read, ate, was under the authority of The Pope. To not be a Christian, was to not be a European.

My first point is that EVERYTHING had religious significance. The crusades weren't particularly religious, it's just that EVERYTHING was stamped with the name of God back then, including the wars that were fought.

Radical Islam, on the other hand, is making a clear effort to single out infidels, to crush opposing religion.

To sum up my first point, ISIS is a purely religious war, wheras The Crusades were a highly complex political war with "God" stamped on them, to help gain support.