Why the Crusades Still Matter
The Christian holy wars happened nearly 1,000 years ago, but religious distortion is still alive and well today.
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In response to President Obama’s highly criticized remarks at Thursday’s prayer breakfast, Jonah Goldberg, a conservative columnist, offered a defense of the Crusades—atrocities were committed, but they also accomplished some good.
“Christianity, even in its most terrible days, even under the most corrupt popes, even during the most unjustifiable wars, was indisputably a force for the improvement of man,” Goldberg wrote.