Is it me or is a Catholic school's football team being named the Crusaders ignorant?
I didn't think the Crusades were something Catholics would proud of. I don't know that much about it I thought the crusades were a bad thing.
I didn't think the Crusades were something Catholics would proud of. I don't know that much about it I thought the crusades were a bad thing.
Mr. Smartypants
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I think the first answer is ignorant. 8^P
I think Catholics naming their team the Crusaders is telling. It's not about right or wrong, it's just Hooray For Our Team, and suggesting that God favors them because they play for a religious school. If I was Catholic I'd see the Crusades (and the Inquisition) as embarrassments. But it's easier, and more enjoyable, and more unifying, to be proud of something than embarrassed about something.
Besides, The Crusaders allows them to use all that great imagery--swords and shields and armor and knights on horseback. What else could you use that was related to the Catholic Church? The Saints? The Altar-Boys? The Monks? 8^\
pepgurli
The Crusades started in response to Muslims slaughtering the Christians in Jerusalem, so the crusades were just defending themselves against invaders.
cristoiglesia
The Crusades were not a bad thing as they freed the Middle East of Muslim dominance and allowed freedom of worship in Jerusalem. God bless!
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
Anonymous
Crusades were a good thing. Crusades were in defense of Christians in the middleast, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Malta, Cyprus and southern Italy when the Sejuk Turks attacked the Byzantine Empire.
If it wasnt for the Crusades, Europe would look a lot different, no mona lisa, no eiffel tower, no soccer.
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Look at the bright side, It could of been the "Cursers"