Why The Crusades Were Awesome, Actually

Sadly this video will only be buried under the YouTube algorithm while anti-Christian rhetoric will continue to be promoted institutionally and commercially.

It's easy to condemn the "find out" when you ignore the "fuck around" that preceded it...

In the Philippines, we studied the Crusades as a positive thing in schools. I was surprised that we view this history very different from Western standpoint.

Some kings were good, other kings were trash, some spared everyone, others killed everyone, thats what happened and still happens today, but now, no one cares...

Calling the Crusades an unprovoked attack on Muslim territory is like calling D Day an unprovoked attack on German territory. I can understand saying that it was sad that it ever became necessary, but it's not shameful to fight for survival or to regain what was taken.

People always seem to FORGET that the crusades were a response to 800 years of Muslim aggression.

Thanks for researching this topic. It is hard to be faithful in these times especially when christians from my own congregation tell me how shameful the crusades were.

This was truly a massive eye-opener for me! thank you

I had to write a report on the crusades my sophomore year. I pretty much said what you’re saying here, and the teacher gave me a zero. She also threatened to fail me for the year because I defined Jihad as a holy war, even though I asked an actual practicing Muslim about the Islamic definition. This was 2014, I can only imagine how much history has been further bastardized since then

I like how the christians are always condemned yet somehow the islam atrocities are consistently ignored...

Anyone who would like to delve deeper into learning about the Crusades should read the book 'The Crusades: the Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land' by Thomas Asbridge.

"It took Christianity 300 years of being put to the sword by Islam, having 2/3 of the Christian world conquered - with millions butchered, and over a million more Europeans carted off across the Mediterranean into slavery before the first crusade was called."

As an Romanian I can say that our history books appreciate the crusades , especially the late ones that we participated in like Varna , because the Ottomans have been a constant threat to us until the 19th century

As a french, I'm always surprised by the way the Crusades are viewed by the anglo-saxon public. I've never heard something as "The Crusade were aggression" or "a terrible crime". It was an adventure, driven by faith, and which gave rise to exchanges more than a simple fight between enemy religions. The Middle East being at the time one very diverse region, in its cultural and religious mix. Also, it should not be forgotten that, at the time of the Crusaders, the Middle East was a Christian land only a few centuries ago. Islam having only appeared in the 7th century and the first crusade taking place at the beginning of the 11th century

Puzzling to me is the people that attack the crusades but are oddly silent on the forced expansion of Islam.

I have always hated that film for some of the reasons outlined in this video. Good work!

Can't even imagine what a crazy undertaking this was for the soldiers, after that notorious travel distance to fight an unknown enemy for months.

France Germany and England getting along? Yea shit got real...

As a Catholic, I don’t think it’s a good idea to glorify the Crusades like the people in my community always did. I think both the Islamic expansion of the 600s and the atrocities of the Crusades of the 1100s should be condemned, as well as contextualised like what you have done here. I don’t like people that exaggerate the atrocities of one event and gloss over the same for another. This was seen in my country for a long time with the crimes of Catholics emphasised and the crimes of Protestants diminished, such as with Bloody Sunday in 1972. As always, brilliant video Pax and great to hear a nuanced view of the Crusades rather than a pro-Christian or pro-Muslim view, and I can’t say enough about how much I loved the French Revolution video.

As an atheist who has a great appreciation for learning history I’ve also been baffled by how often the crusades are portrayed as some unique evil among historical wars. Completely just ignoring the defensive nature of them and how Islamic expansion both pre and post dated them all