In 1095, Pope Urban II gave a sermon at the Council of Clermont. In this sermon, he called not for spiritual atonement, but for military action against Muslim peoples who were expanding into new areas and blocking access to Christian Eastern Mediterranean holy sites. Thus began the First Crusade, and a cycle of Christian imperialism and Muslim expansion that resulted in countless deaths, and an ideological conflict that is still carried on to this day by extremists on both sides. Today…
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