The Shocking Truth About The Crusades That You DIDN'T Know

[@imimpo9316]

God bless the defenders of Christian people - the crusaders Christ is King!

[@davidandbernadettegockowsk9077]

Loving the openness to the Catholic Church on this channel lately, keep it up!

[@Radxcor83]

Agreed!

[@LindsayMarie777]

Ditto !

[@bluecomb5376]

YES!

[@ainako1010]

'Cause we're probably half his viewership lol (half kidding). There's plenty of Catholic channels that uses clips from Ruslan, myself included.

[@AnnaAnnieAnneofGreenGables]

There can only be one truth, and Christ wanted and established one church.

[@artemismaria4520]

Finally somebody speaks out the obvious truth about the Crusaders! They were the very good guys!

[@matthewashman1406]

@@artemismaria4520 yes except when they were vilians

[@HankSemoreButz]

And the Seljuk Turks were saints…😂

[@TinusTegenlicht]

They were the good guys, really? Read what the Crusaders did in Constantinople or other cities. And they were the good guys? Nobody is good, except for God the Bible says.

[@HankSemoreButz]

@@TinusTegenlicht you misspelled Constantinople

[@matthewashman1406]

@@HankSemoreButz Turk made no illusion of being saints.

[@bluewhistleschannel6058]

Professor Rodney Stark… he’s the best academic source for this. Brian is telling the truth.

[@theautodidacticlayman]

Oh, cool!! I found “Victory of Reason” by him in a thrift store once. Still on my bookshelf-haven’t read it yet. 😅

[@tomasrocha6139]

@@bluewhistleschannel6058 Ah yes a Professor of Sociology is somehow the best academic source for the Crusades instead of historians

[@bluewhistleschannel6058]

@@tomasrocha6139 read his book. Bearing false witness. As a sociologist he assesses the work of contemporary historians on the subject. Each chapter references the historian at the end. That should be good enough even for your amazing high exacting standards of research.

[@tomasrocha6139]

@@bluewhistleschannel6058 It's filled with misinformation and faulty logic as Tim O'Neill's review shows.

[@bluewhistleschannel6058]

@@tomasrocha6139 bizarre chat gpt type reply.

[@bobbyflores220]

The Battle of Lepanto...you are welcome

[@aadschram5877]

The battle of Tours 732AD.

[@-GodIsMyJudge-]

Also the defence during the great seige of Malta 1565AD

[@xispaster]

Navas de Tolosa 1.212

[@HankSemoreButz]

Great points!

[@stickmastergib3665]

I love Brian Holdsworth, great content

[@ainako1010]

It's almost as if there's a history of anti-Catholic narratives out there. I'm shocked /s.

[@Notouchs]

*King Henry get's mentioned* - "Yo cut the tape quick!"

[@bluecomb5376]

Ruslan, keep it up! You are on fire these days. Have you ever looked up Eucharistic miracles? Like the 1996 buenos aires, argentina eucharistic miracle, Lanciano Italy 750ad, or 2006 Tixtla, Mexico? These are three among MANY eucharistic miracles...they have the same blood type (AB) as the Shroud of Turin.

[@timboslice980]

Ruslan please do an episode on Lourdes! Please! The miracles there are beyond count many scientifically verified!

[@shanehanes7096]

Well Protestants love to remind Catholics of the crusades and inquisition. Atheist just picked it up from them and applied it to all of Christianity. Just argued with a Protestant about this recently.

[@diegojaramillo5063]

Why was the Church even in power. Before Constantine the church did not have political power. The church was meant to be a simple body of Believers. Not force people to convert or force people to be baptized. Spain was the most guilty of that. So yes the Church. has blood on it's hands. That is the truth.

[@shanehanes7096]

@@diegojaramillo5063 who or what do you have in mind when you say people were forcibly converted or baptized? Give me some specifics.

[@diegojaramillo5063]

@@shanehanes7096 Forced baptisms in Spain have occurred throughout history, including during the reign of Henry III of Castile and Leon (1390-1406) and in 1492: 1391 During the pogroms of 1391, thousands of Jews were baptized at sword's point. The threat of violence left many Jews with no choice but to convert to Christianity. 1492 In 1492, the Catholic Monarchs, persuaded by inquisitor general Tomás de Torquemada, expelled all Jews who refused to be baptized. This expulsion of over 160,000 people deprived Spain of many of its most economically active citizens.

[@shanehanes7096]

@@diegojaramillo5063 what is your religion?

[@alisterrebelo9013]

Battle of Lepanto, Europe, you're welcome.

[@11antun]

❤ Ave Maria

[@peaceandjoy2568]

The Crusaders were the good guys. As in all wars there are evil actors. But many of the Crusaders were European noblemen who answered the call of the Pope for Christian men to defend Christian territories. The Ottoman empire was attacking and conquering them from the east and were now setting their sights on Europe. The Pope offered spiritual blessings to the men who will go to fight the encroaching enemy. Those were the times when real men really took their Catholic faith seriously. Men back then had more conviction in their Faith in Christ and their duty to defend Christendom.

[@puchy110]

@@peaceandjoy2568 these were the Seljuks, a nomadic empire with origins from Central Asia, but yes, before then they sacked numerous Byzantine cities carrying off thousands of Christians as slaves. Tales of the sacking of Ani or Caesarea gave the Christians of the west plenty of reasons to go to war.

[@moulabux9740]

By God I love jesus with my heart and soul

[@zsofiasz.8533]

Brian is brilliant 🎉

[@11antun]

Zach, we are waiting at Home for you❤

[@henryksolo9375]

Loves Brian's channel , highly recommend his conversion story !

[@shaulkramer7425]

You guys turned him off as soon as Henry the Protestant was mentioned... Can't handle the heat boys?

[@Phoenixmagnus]

😂😂😂

[@devinr88]

@@shaulkramer7425 I believe they watched the full video on the live stream if I'm not mistaken

[@matthewashman1406]

Because it was an erroneous shot. Brian was saying the church was Ecclesiatal authority and can't be blamed for inquisition. Then hit prodestants with the evil king Henry the 8th BLA BLA 😮 when he was a civil authority. 💥 Boom not like for like. 😂

[@TheOnwardMarch]

They were just playing, They’ve even had Trent Horne on the show

[@FimiliarGalaxy9]

Shhhh be nice to them. Grace is the only argument necessary.

[@NMemone]

I would love to see Brian interviewed by you guys! And I'm not even Catholic.

[@r.m5883]

*Ruslan interview Christian Historian Raymond Ibrahim he knows much more about Christian and Islamic history !!!! He just did a live with David Wood. His info is sooo important during this time !!*

[@roshanjose3021]

The ending was the best 😆 I would love if you could go more into the historical details and also hear response to that

[@cecilou7383]

Thank you for the staunched faith you show.

[@DonaldRwapunga]

Caught a stray at the end not expecting it 😂😂

[@pastorpaulcochrane]

Zachs favorite saying, "It's not nothing" lol!

[@jeetpatel6087]

The crusades were 7 battles that went nowhere while Islam led a bloodbath into North Africa I wonder what’s worse

[@TMartellus]

Lol. The end with the reaction to Henry viii was great.

[@yuca2k1]

Lmaoooo he closed that window real quick!!

[@arionclarke6078]

1:12 "put some respect on our name "🤣🤣🤣

[@seansensei10]

I hope Ruslan brings Brian Holdsworth on the show sometime. Brian is an extremely kind and genuine person, this has been a very well known thing about him in Catholic KZbin circles. If you want to watch another video about the Inquisition and the Crusades, Pax Tube has amazing videos on them.

[@christianmyhre7154]

Amazing

[@eldansambatyon]

intentions were good..... but there was a point many crusaders ended up focusing on treasures and wealth from war booties

[@peterhenryzepeda3484]

Arguments citing the inquisition are still used by Protestants. If you wonder why he mentioned Protestants, that’s why.

[@MrPoggin]

⁠ All three of the myths that Holdsworth refers to were originally used by anti-Catholics of Protestant background, and so they are widely believed throughout the anglosphere (hence Clinton and Obama’s references to the crusades). Now that relations between Catholicism and man’s Protestant denominations are much friendlier, you are more likely to hear these items brought up by atheists. Dawkins definitely inherited a lot of these ideas and prejudices from his own background for example. But thank goodness even he is beginning to change his tune too.

[@caliburnblade7895]

Because they're the first to twist the stories about it. I heard a British protestant say there are kids executed.

[@Dizerner]

Justifying these things is inexcusable.

[@nicanorfredricksbirdrealm228]

No

[@Dizerner]

@@nicanorfredricksbirdrealm228 If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight (Jn. 18:36 NKJ)

[@jtrlatinist2227]

@@Dizerner there’s a difference between that and the Crusades. Just as a country has a legitimate power to declare war today. That same thing existed back then. It doesn’t change because the fighters happen to be all Christian.

[@Coco-qz7fn]

Thomas Madden, writes the definitive truth on the crusades and is an expert beyond measures.

[@susan6722]

Read Dominion by Tom Holland. Amazing book.

[@102483989]

Nah it wasn’t a dig at Protestants I think he was just using it as a description of King Henry rather than an accusation

[@majose7787]

Zach said "Gimme some armour" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@markmota1431]

@@majose7787 my thoughts exactly. Hilarious

[@royaltybuiltco]

Bring crusades back!

[@jns2820]

The core problem of the Crusades was that it was a government call to take Jerusalem. It had nothingbto do with the Gospel, it had to do with the idea that Jerusalem belongs to Christendom. When in reality, it is prophesied for the Jewish people.

[@oscarvasquez2768]

😂 I was finally about to subscribe but you stopped at the Protestant catching strays.

[@Mariosilvagt3]

I highly recoment for you to reacton The Battle of Lepanto. The Catholic church was at war with Islam. If the Catholics would've had lost that battle. We all be Islam by now.

[@matthewpurvis]

“Give me some armor” 😂😂

[@alanhill6018]

I do believe lies should be cleared up, but Here’s the issue; What does any of this have to do with Jesus? Our faith is not predicated on the actions of those who claimed to be Christians and may have or may have not misrepresented our Lord. Is Jesus somehow no longer the truly innocent man who died for our sins just if someone was a false follower of His? Last time that I checked, I didn’t participate in any crusades, - I have sinned though, but neither one stops Jesus from being Jesus, from Him being innocent or being LORD. Trust in God, not in man. Psalm 118:8 "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man".

[@dave438-jw3]

When the crusaders were unable to defeat the Moslems, they turned on their Orthodox brothers in what was left of the Roman Empire, forcing them into the schismatic Catholic Church. The cry went up, "better the sultan's turbine than the Latin mitre!" (especially after the 4th crusade; the Catholic Pope belatedly apologized for that in 2001).

[@Benito-lr8mz]

Reconquista the most duration war in history and in very vast part fighting only Spaniards .

[@tomJ1.1-3]

the changed the name and called it Instantbul...🙃

[@theautodidacticlayman]

😆

[@Kanemakii]

sounds much better, especially without all the pagan practices you guys did in what you call churches

[@shepherddog1199]

@@Kanemakii learn some real history.

[@Kanemakii]

@@shepherddog1199 ofc a pagan would disagree with well known facts

[@shepherddog1199]

@@Kanemakii question. Are you a Mohammedan or a Protestant? Or are you a Jew? No disrespect meant in this question.

[@olegsoltis3305]

What about April of 1204? Crusaders sacked Constantinople which was populated by Orthodox Christians and did to them exactly the same what Muslims did to Christians in general at the time.

[@jontyharris5249]

Kings hall has some good stories of the crusades and the true stories

[@bumblingsahm]

trying to follow him ....who is they that tried to conquer France?

[@canaljud]

I don't know if you guys are familiar with Mexico's current politics. Our current president at his start of presidency sent a letter to Spain's King asking him to apologize for the supposed atrocities, robberies and injustices that the Spanish Empire did in the past, in particular to us "Mexicans" (even though Mexico did not exist at that time, it was a bunch of tribes being enslaved by the mean and cruel aztecs aka mexicas), that's the narrative that is taught in schools, an anti-Spain sentiment. But thanks God for the Internet these days that the truth about this whole issue with the Spanish Christian Kingdom and the Americas is available for everyone. It's the opposite, the president should be thankful to Spain for all the great things and the creation and building of the Hispanic territories in the Americas. For those who are interested look up for "The Black Legend". It is tied with what Brian talks in his video about the Inquisition. _Saludos._

[@alexdelosreyes6076]

Deus Vult

[@cjr4497]

Evangelicals for Harris comes to mind.

[@David.Dahlia]

Constantine didn't build Constantinople he renamed the city Byzantium after himself.

[@rhuttner12]

How about when the Crusaders attacked and killed many Eastern Orthodox Christians in Constantinople? And, after killing innocent Christians, they stole many artifacts…..

[@NMemone]

How about the Massacre of the Latins?

[@shepherddog1199]

Rhuttner, how about the fact that they were already excommed by Rome before doing this?

[@mcray79]

@@rhuttner12 It was Venetian mercenaries who did it and acted against the Pope's order. Because of this the pope excommunicated those people who attacked Constantinople. So still, the legitimate Crusades were right and just.

[@mcray79]

​@@NMemone I dont think he is orthodox, but indeed the latin massacre was a tragedy and had 20 times more casualty than the sack of constantinople.

[@rhuttner12]

@@mcray79 Yet, the Pope called it a God’s providence that they got sacked, and then proceeded to take the loot

[@garycasebier7909]

Ruslan, love your content. Wonderin' if you are going to invest some time in covering Christian hip-hop artists again.

[@45s262]

I commented, alot.. just trying to help your algorithm

[@pegquilty592]

Hmm, feel like you guys stopped short, Brian Holdsworth didn’t get a chance to finish. Would be great if the link was in the description to his whole vid. Thx!

[@isaiahdacosta8678]

They really laughed in money💀🤣 1:50

[@boltingpuppies]

John Wycliffe Jan Huss William Tyndale

[@justenejorger1840]

Technically Henry the 8th was Catholic, then made his own religion. Not sure if he can truly be classified as a protestant.

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

So would Martin Luther then not be classified as a protestant?

[@stephenwilliams4531]

Knights Templar where right

[@markmcflounder15]

Also from God's Battalions (Stark, 2009) Chapter 5 Enlisting Crusaders [Myth of Wealth Motivation] "Finally, it must be kept in mind that about 85 to 90 percent of the Frankish knights did not respond to the pope's call to the Crusade. This gives further support to the claim that those who went were motivated primarily by pious idealism. It must be supposed that if it had been widely believed that great returns were to be had from looting a land of 'milk and honey,' there would have been a much greater turnout." (114) Conclusion: "Had the crusaders been motivated not by religion but by land and loot, the knights of Europe would have responded earlier, in 1063, when Pope Alexander II proposed a Crusade to drive the infidel Muslims out of Spain. Unlike the Holy Land, Moorish Spain was extremely wealthy, possessed an abundance of fertile lands, and was close at hand. But hardly anyone responded to the pope's summons. Yet only thirty-three years later, tens of thousands of crusaders set out for the dry, impoverished wastes of faraway Palestine. What was different? Spain was not the Holy Land! Christ had not walked the streets of Toledo, nor had he been crucified in Seville." (118)

[@RevivedSaiyan]

I watch crusaders and Vikings warfare movies or shows to do the same in gaming.

[@tomaschacko]

If u can understand Israel Palestine situation, then u know what happened during crusades...

[@pmaYoder_]

3000 over 3 centuries? Yeah….maybe just in Spain. But there were many many more than just that.

[@joecool2759]

Charlemagne, Duke Godfrey, Saint Ferdinand, King Richard Lionheart….i can go on lol

[@markmcflounder15]

Good freaking grief, "millions were killed in the Inquistion". Why not make it billions??? The History Channel in The History of Us said 40,000 were executed. But James Hannam said ahout 1000 or less* (sorry, I'm going off of memory: Im not at home to check his book)

[@dansmith9724]

What happened to all the Christian people and churches in the middle east 🤔

[@ZergleJerk]

There are still quite a few. In Israel, Lebanon, and Egypt. Which was up until fairly recently the safer part of the region. Syria even had a large Christian population up until you know...

[@CollinBoSmith]

Oof. I’m reading Gavin Ortlunds book on Protestantism right now and I think he would take exception with this sugar coated portrayal of the history. Specifically in the case of the inquisition supposedly not executing anyone because heretics were handed over to the secular authorities… well, this is true in part, but the secular authorities could be excommunicated (damned to hell) if they didn’t carry out the inquisitions verdict. Also Roman Catholic theology at the time was such that the Church was in full control of the state, and so it was in effect executing people.

[@mpex1980]

You should interview a Nun

[@RevivedSaiyan]

Crusaders, vikings 👍🔥🥃

[@nathanpettijohn3236]

I think he took some points too far. There was some good pushback, but he pushed too far. 2 examples: There were multiple crusades and they should be dealt with in different manners. For instance, even though they had an understandible reason for launching, he failed to mention that it was the one of the later Crusades that sacked Constantinople thus weakening it for later conquest by the muslims. When the Pope found out what they did, he was very angry at them. Also, the inquisition was targeted at Protestants. This was after the Council of Trent and was a response to the suprising success of the reformation. Further, the catholic church earlier in history had established that their spiritual authority superceded temporal authorities. Thus, when they declared someone a heritic and the civil authorities exicuted them, it was like an officer telling and enlisted man to shoot someone. This is an improtant fact that needs to be understood to correctly see what was happening in many of the Protestants exicutions. However, I do agree that the Crusades are often misunderstood. He was correct, but in my opinion he carried his point a little too far.

[@ChazMcMahon]

At least link the video you're commenting on...

[@45s262]

7:10 NO, MY GUY... more like.. "You believe that Jesus Christ is the literal Son of God? I don't know but prison!"

[@josephandino5875]

😂😂

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

Deus Vult!

[@morrishansford3316]

I'm just going to answer the one. It is not something for you and I was a pagan 20 some odd years before I converted back to Christianity and in truth we didn't really care. People knew we were witches or not so we're wiccans or whatever. Honestly, we kind of wore it with pride. Definitely if it upset Christians. Truth be told yeah we love upsetting you guys by claiming that. So no it was nothing we wore with shame

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

1:49, Brian is canadian.

[@christrisen6589]

Protestantism is the worse thing that happened to Christensendom

[@diegojaramillo5063]

Prostentism was created by the Bad teachings of the Midieval church. There is no perfect church but the abueses and strange non-biblical doctries created by men had to be challnenged. Purgatory, indulgences, prayers and worship to saints. Relics and bone worship. Ignorance of God's Holy word. So yeah protestantism is not perfect but it was because Rome left the simple Christian Gospell message for traditions of men. I do not care what denomination you belong to . Cling to Jesus Christ as your only source of salvation and study the Bible. Lean on his Holy Spirit and the Word of God. You will be set free.

[@jarueb]

Man y’all should just become Catholic 😇

[@sundayciscero]

Why would a believer need to become “catholic” ? I thought the scripture teaches that the whole ordeal is to believe in Christs finish work?

[@shepherddog1199]

​@@sundayciscerowhat if there are truths one rejects? Those truths, no matter how small, are important.

[@jarueb]

@@sundayciscero Catholicism has the fullness of Christian Truth and the sacraments. Christ finished the work of creating the path to salvation. It’s up to us to do the work to follow it.

[@sundayciscero]

@@jarueb the “work” according to what I read in the Bible is taking care of the widows and poor and spreading the gospel, and loving our neighbors and even enemies. This fullness you’re talking about is not in the Bible brother. That’s religious works tbh. To call religious acts fullness is misinterpretation of the scripture bro

[@sundayciscero]

@@shepherddog1199 what truths are you talking about? Catholicism is just an EXPRESSION of one’s faith like other denominations. They have the same Holy Spirit and same miracles and religion and love that others denominations have. Ain’t no truth that a certain denomination has that has them floating and walking in special truths that nobody else has. Pls brothers let’s step out of religion and not be like the Pharisees

[@ivanlecic8965]

Constantinopole was an ortodox city not catholic

[@MrsCambers]

Roman Catholic and Orthodox were the same church until the great schism in the early 1000’s. Constantinople was known as “New Rome” in Constantine’s time. To this day they technically are the same church. Only orthodoxy believes just the first 7 councils. They are also not under the Pope. The Latin or western rite is Roman Catholicism and the Eastern is Orthodoxy.

[@aadschram5877]

Roma Nova.

[@AJsoment95x]

They corrected themselves later at this same video, haven't you seen that?

[@shepherddog1199]

​@@MrsCambersthey have more differences. May Constantinople, Moscow, and Alexandria submit to Rome soon.

[@45s262]

Protestants come from the same fountain..

[@fosterduncan7]

Well, without the crusades, we would all be Islamic

[@gareth645]

I recommend people check out the books by Raymond Ibrahim, particularly a book called "sword and scimitar". Type his name into KZbin and you will see some great speeches from him. Another book to read is one called "white gold", by Giles Milton

[@tango31313]

just to comment on the beginning of the video, the crusades werent the only time christians killed en masse, the conquest of the new world (mainly by christian kingdoms) wasnt exactly done with peace and love. millions died in those conquests as well. say what you will about mohhamed but he was a conqueror outright so it makes sense that Islam still follows that way of thinking. but Christ literally turned the other cheek and let himself be killed and instructed his followers to do the same. 1 person killed in the name of christ is one too many.

[@stickmastergib3665]

Assuming you're referring to the Spanish conquest of Meso-America, you remember who they were at war against? It was the Aztecs, who sacrificed upwards of a thousand people every year to their pagan sun god and were hated by those they had dominion over, so much so that those native people joined Cortez in overthrowing them. And where are you getting those "millions died in conquest" from? No such figure exists unless you count disease which is another matter altogether. Besides, the only millions I recall from that time period were the millions of natives converting to Christianity following Our Lady of Guadalupe. Forgive me, I'm just really struggling to see the argument here, as if Christian's can't ever go to war for any reason.

[@ryanparker4996]

Oh no, those poor Empires, boo hoo

[@tango31313]

@@ryanparker4996 grow up

[@anomalousviewer3164]

Millions, killed en masse , old falsehoods. Not based on history.

[@ryanparker4996]

@@tango31313 I am grown, and Jesus wasnt a Pacifist. Who tf are you praying to? John Lennon?

[@MarcusAurelius12]

Sounds like what the Palestinians are going through right now in is real

[@calebeversmith]

The self defense of the crusades was justified. In the other hand, Pope Urban II’s offer to forgive your sins if you fought in the crusades is egregious and a false gospel.

[@keeganroberts5460]

7:11 😂

[@apostolosnikolis5281]

1) The crusades were roman catholic soldiers going to Constantinople, the capital city of Byzantine empire and orthodox catholicism, they partied, drunk, eat and have all sorts of feasts and then steal stuff in order to pretend they foughta war. 2) The pope (which the existence of his role is contradicting directly Mark10:18) basically told these soldiers "thou shall kill", which is against the 10 commandments. But because roman catholics believe the pope is sinless (Jesus is the only sinless man) they gave him a pass

[@11antun]

a shot at a protestant king blasphemy? wow! Thinking about a video about Mother of God! Well she was not protestant, i guess

[@naodasfaw9519]

this is trying to rewrite history , like wake up

[@camilojames1]

Why couldn’t you face what Henry VIII actually did? If he’s wrong listen and prove it not hide and ignore it.

[@deuce2479]

I guess i am ignorant I know someone will educate me, the crusades were not strictly Christians defending their homeland but an aggressive expansion to forcefully impose a religion but it seems like he is saying that it was just all defense and they weren't bad at all or just weren't as bad as we're being told?

[@JaimeAlvarez-r9u]

The crusades were a series of events that were sometimes offensive and defensive. The holy land cusades werent the only crusades there was other ones. The reconquista was a crusade and crusades against Ottoman turks as well. The crusades had many battles and stretched many centuries. The crusades were good because Christianity defended itself and was able to spread which is what every religion or ideology does no difference in anything. Obviously people did bad things in the crusade but overall the mission was of divine right to spread the faith to all nations and people. Modernist like to complain many died in the crusades but in reality modernist killed Vietnamize and koreans to spread deomocracy every ideology fights to spread there ideas no difference. Also the fact the Islam stole Christian lands and mostly christians lived in the middle east when the crusades started.

[@anomalousviewer3164]

Crusades were about Christians coming to the military aid of Christians in other regions under attack, mainly by Muslims.

[@danielray4810]

Clinton? Someone who was educated on a Rhodes scholarship can never criticize other people.

[@45s262]

Rage Against The Machine.. killing in the name of 🎶 🎵 Again, way way way before the crusades.. quit acting like it all started with the crusades..

[@christiancelticwarrior1222]

Please remember that video is from a Catholic channel please do your own research

[@Phoenixmagnus]

Yeah you'll find out he's telling the truth.

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

What's wrong with it being from a catholic channel?

[@davidandbernadettegockowsk9077]

Which means it’s evidence based and reliable. Cool

[@christiancelticwarrior1222]

How about the Vatican meeting hall being the head of a serpent or the pope a few years ago doing a ceremony to a pagan idol?

[@Phoenixmagnus]

@christiancelticwarrior1222 Yeah that's not a thing. It's act a fish eye lense that makes it look like that.

[@JohnSmith-us4yu]

To justify the crusades is just a silly thing to do because, some of the biggest victims of the crusades were other Christian groups.

[@davidandbernadettegockowsk9077]

Also biggest beneficiaries, you’re welcome

[@JohnSmith-us4yu]

@@davidandbernadettegockowsk9077 ummm no… let’s not forget about the sacking of Constantinople by the Crusaders. Also the ruthless persecution of other Christian minority groups by the Crusaders.

[@anomalousviewer3164]

To hold onto a false history of the crusades is also a silly thing.

[@JohnSmith-us4yu]

@@anomalousviewer3164 yeah in this case, it would be the Christians like the ones in the video that are holding on a false understanding of the crusades. This is just bad cope.

[@anomalousviewer3164]

@@JohnSmith-us4yu I doubt it's the Christians with the false understanding, it's the heretic Christians and non Christians that have the false history , just repeating old propaganda thinking it's history.

[@andrueworthy2380]

Trying to justify the crusades is stupid. What about the crusades against other Christians like the orthodox Byzantines, Hungarians etc? More nuance about y the crusades happened is fine but this is an L.

[@heythere6983]

my comments are already censored on here, I tried 2 x, cant even comment on it

[@heythere6983]

they basically wanted to wipe out anyone who wasn't apart of their sect. Which if this was still going on today they would be guilty of what they claimed of the muslims they were defending against.

[@rouxmain934]

​@@heythere6983it's not the Ruslan doing it, it's KZbin's algorithm

[@rouxmain934]

1: the Crusades were meant to HELP the Byzantines. You're referring to the 4th crusade, where a bad Greek emperor got deposed then begged the crusaders to help him. The Western knights, wanting to be chivalrous, foolishly trusted him. 2: The Hungarians?!? You probably mean the Hussites. This was a war where politics and religion got mixed up. But of course many go for the strawman "Catholics bad, whatever Christian that goes against Catholics good" without even looking up what the Hussites actually believed.

[@thelastbrobo7826]

Sounds like heresy!

[@ReyChurchill]

What the heck is this guy talking about?!? You were in danger for possessing a Bible during the inquisition and if you wanted to translate your own you were burned at the stake.

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

evidence?

[@ReyChurchill]

@@WC3isBetterThanReforged Researching the historical characters and fate of John Wycliffe, William Tyndale and Jan Hus should suffice.

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

​@@ReyChurchill I'll look into Huss but Wycliffe died of a stroke. Wycliffe purposely mistranslated the bible into middle English, changing certain words for political rather than religious reasons. After that, the Bishops of England banned unsanctioned translations. Tyndale was excommunicated, not for translating the bible into middle English but for violating the bishops' order. Tyndale was killed by a protestant, not the Catholic church. Tyndale sided with the Pope and refused to endorse Henry VIII's divorce so Henry had him killed.

[@WC3isBetterThanReforged]

@@ReyChurchill I'll look into hus's death later but wycliffe died of a stroke. Middle English translations of the Bible were never banned (they existed in illuminated manuscripts) but wycliffe purposely mistranslated words for political protest, not for religious accuracy. After his death, english bishops banned unsanctioned translations. Tyndale was excommunicated for violating the order of the bishops, not for translating the Bible. He was excommunicated, but not killed by the catholic church. When the protestant king Henry viii asked for tyndale to endorse his divorce, tyndale sided with the pope. So henry viii killed tyndale for retaining some of his catholic christianity.

[@ReyChurchill]

@@WC3isBetterThanReforged Wycliffe died of a stroke true, but his followers the so called Lollards were persecuted severely by the Catholic Church. Tyndale was persecuted by the church before he got into trouble with Henry viii and therefore had to flee multiple times. His execution was primarily driven by his conflicts with the Catholic Church rather than direct orders from Henry viii. And yes, feel free to do your due diligence regarding Jan Hus.

[@ainsgrant]

I don't remember Jesus calling for physical warfare 🤔 Are you really try to justify the Crusades?😒.

[@Phoenixmagnus]

You haven't read the old testament have you.😅

[@illyrian9976]

If you think the first two Crusades where not justified, then you are not a real Christian

[@lm7267]

@@ainsgrant Jesus never said we can’t defend our nations and families from attacks; the idea that it is wrong to do so is a bizarre modern idea with zero basis in Scripture. The crusades were defensive of Christian land. Do the reading so that you are not ignorant. Raymond Ibrahim or Rodney Stark.

[@tango31313]

@@lm7267 those early christians that were burned alive or fed to the tigers sure were suckers weren't they? i wonder why they didnt raise up in arms agains the romans like jesus did? oh wait he didnt did he?

[@Idishrkdmd]

@@tango31313 jesus needed to die and the early Christians didn't have enough power they were mostly slaves and the disadvantaged like the disabled.