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Crusaders are effective and abusive because religious devotion energizes them and teaches them to see Muslims and Jews literally as demons.
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Crusaders
Crusaders are effective and abusive because religious devotion energizes them and teaches them to see Muslims and Jews literally as demons.
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"Okay, so this is Pope Urban II saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. If you fight a demon, it doesn't..."
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"And eventually they succeed, okay? Even though a lot are criminals, they're still very good fighters because they have religious devotion, okay? They're very..."
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"...care about Jerusalem. It's not that important to them. So the crusaders are able to take Jerusalem and they establish something called the Crusader..."
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"But because of their religious fanaticism, they will maintain these Crusader States for the next 20 years, okay? So the yellow are Crusader States...."
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"...they control Jerusalem, there are five major military orders of the crusaders, okay? You've probably heard of the Knights Templar, okay? They're the most..."
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"...the community is protecting them, okay, and they know that the crusaders only want to kill the Cathars, not the Catholics, okay? They're Catholics...."
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"...You killed everyone. Okay? Which is problematic. Because a lot of crusaders didn't want to kill Catholics. They didn't want to kill Cathars. And..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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