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still_one

(92,193 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2015, 04:20 PM Feb 2015

I do not understand when folks point out the crusades as the best example

Of fanaticism in Christianity, when their are quite a few examples in the 20th century

The Christian Phalanges, 6 million Jews, Catholics and Protasants in Ireland, are just a few examples

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enki23

(7,788 posts)
4. Not when we have wildly popular movies about Christian soldiers tattooed with crusader's crosses.
Sun Feb 8, 2015, 04:32 PM
Feb 2015

And who, we are told, enjoyed very much the killing of Muslims and wished they could shoot people for the crime of carrying a Koran.

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