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The First Crusade

A medieval war framed as a holy response to Muslim advances and attacks on Christian pilgrimage routes, with both defensive and expansionist motives.

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Jan 25, 2026
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Were the crusades done as defense or to conquer new land?

cannot be reduced to a single motive: medieval actors and institutions framed them as defensive — to halt Muslim expansion and reclaim sacred Christian sites — while many participants and leaders purs...

Feb 3, 2026

Christians are historically more violent than Satanists

Measured by historical scale, institutional reach, and documented episodes, with far more organized and large-scale violence than groups self-identifying as Satanists, whose documented history is nume...

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