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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Holy Grail was an excuse for Europeans to ransack the ME over and over again...

If they had a realistic goal, they might achieve it and have to make a new excuse.

I'd like to think most people today would be educated enough to get that, but it doesn't look like it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Also, tons of rapes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You aren't invited on the quest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait, so are we or are we not sacking the ME this time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

We can change it up and do the Northern Crusades again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

asking as if the sacking stopped at any time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would most people today care to know a tiny tidbit of Christian-specific trivia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

a tiny tidbit of Christian-specific trivia?

...

Bruh, the crusades was an extremely important event that occupied centuries of both European and Middle Eastern civilization's history and we're literally still dealing with the fallout on a global geopolitical scale...

I remember when my decades old red state public education was considered shitty, but do people really think the fucking crusades was "a tiny tidbit of Christian-specific trivia"?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Bruh, the crusades was an extremely important event that occupied centuries of both European and Middle Eastern civilization's history and we're literally still dealing with the fallout on a global geopolitical scale...

You can argue the same for pretty much any major time period of history. Wars have been fought over the most trivial of causes. Women, minor insults, etc etc. You think this in particular is important because it's relevant to your cultural upbringing. Why would I as an Asian care about it as more than another historical piece of trivia?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Not all people equate the holy grail with the crusades.

I just think they want to belittle the idea of a holy grail. As a non-believer an old trinket like that wouldn't have much value.