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Originally Posted by GGG
The crusades is one of the best examples. They had nothing to do with religion. These were political wars. Religion was used to get people to sign up but those at the top weren't fighting for God.
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Sorry, this is just not true. "Nothing to do with religion"? Indulgences offered for crusading against the Saracen were a powerful motivator for many that went; do you really believe hundreds of thousands of men went to try to conquer a tiny bit of land of no strategic importance and little wealth for exclusively "political" reasons?
And what about fighting monastic orders like the Templars and the Hospitallers? Do they not count as religiously inspired?