The Crusades-Reason's Triumph Over Religion

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Reason’s Triumph over Religion As well as forwarding the advancement of a civilization, ideas can be significant barrier in the path to positive progress. Certain beliefs may have a bad influence on the quality of our lives and the course of history. Religions can sometimes call for too much faith. In many cases they have contributed to the kind of stubbornness and bigotry which fogs a clear view of reality. In some instances, innocent victims have been exploited, enslaved, or burned as witches. Christianity, for example, began, as all myths do, as a means to offer explanation, comfort, and purpose to fearing human beings. However, it has become way too successful at this. It has satisfied people to the point where many have lost valuable aspects of their curiosity, and caused them to not be open to objective knowledge which is above their own…show more content…
It is a fact that people’s religions, when crossed, lead to bloodshed. Some of the most significant were those of the Christian Crusades. The Crusades were during a time of Western European expansion, conquest, and unspeakable atrocities. These wars were fought in the name of God, and to justify their actions they were declared as “Holy Wars”. In the Humanistic Tradition, it states on page 84, “It soon became apparent, however, that the material benefits of the Crusades outweighed the spiritual ones”. Tens of thousands of Christians marched hundreds of miles to rampage and murder Muslims to gain back Jerusalem. Along the way they murdered scores of Jews. Depending on the perspective, it was seen then that Christians were right ,and Muslims were wrong. The crusades, “did not secure any territory permanently, nor did they stop the westward advance of the Turks”, and were “failures at religious ventures” (Fiero 84). So, all in all the crusades were a waste of time, and a meaningless sacrifice of innocent human lives for the greed of the
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