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10/18/2015 2:31:43 AM
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[quote]Teutonic Order[/quote]
[quote] not to persecute individuals of other religions.[/quote]
Lol what?
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What? I don't see the correlation. Please elaborate upon what it is that has set you off.
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Teutons slaughtered Lithuanians for being pagan.
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During wartime.
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Edited by d0c 0n1ner: 10/18/2015 1:44:18 PMThat was the purpose of the war. More or less.
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The purpose was to return land to Christendom.
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It wasn't Christian previously.
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You're wrong, it was. The Middle East is called the cradle of Christianity for a reason. Those lands were predominantly Christian before Muslim invasion and conversion.
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Lithuania has nothing to with the Middle East, mate.
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Ok... I'm still trying to connect your argument with that of the crusades. You aren't making a very clear point.
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You said in the op that the Teutonic order did not persecute others based on their religion. The fact that they crusaded on lithuanian pagans says otherwise.
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[quote]You said in the op that the Teutonic order did not persecute others based on their religion. The fact that they crusaded on lithuanian pagans says otherwise.[/quote] I said: [quote]Many historians consider the crusades as a retaliatory act by Christendom against a violent and malignant Islamic Caliphate. It is hard to consider the Crusades a violent religious movement, in that crusaders (such as the Teutonic Order) would protect Muslim, Jewish, and Christian pilgrims alike on their way to the holy land.[/quote] Never did I say that they didn't attack people of other faiths. Medieval warfare and society was brutish. Things happened. I'm talking about the nature of the crusades, not the tolerance of Knights. The crusades were a retaliatory act against Islam. What happened in Lithuania was conquest. Often times, European conquest was justified by religion. They wanted land and used the excuse 'they're pagans' as a means of justification.
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Oh Kek, I read it wrong. Sorry about that.
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That's fine. :P I need to specify (and elaborate) when I talk about the crusades. Not all 'crusades' are of the same time period, nor are they all in the Middle East. You were talking about the Prussian Crusade.
