Chapters 4 and 5

I've decided to combine these 2 chapters as they in a way deal with similar topics. Chapter 4 deals with Christianity and the slaughter of innocents and chapter 5 talks about the 3rd reich. Now in the Bible it talks about when God instructed His people to go in a destroy another nation. This was not a random act of violence, in that time there were battles and wars going on constantly, they were simply defending themselves or getting their lands back.

Now for one of the most controversial issues of Christianity, the crusades. One cannot hold all of Christianity responsible for the wrong doings and wrong teachings of one period of time. The church became corrupt and world centered and were telling them that if they died on the crusades that they would skip purgatory and go straight to heaven. Now look at how good that would look to the poor people of the villages who had no good works, they had nothing to lose if they went on a crusade but their poverty, so they would go and fight. The church was also saying one way to be forgiven was to pay the church and they would be forgiven, this is a way they were corrupting the minds of their people. They were also telling the people that the muslims that occupied the holy land were evil people and telling lies about how they were acting. This resulted in the slaughter of many innocent people