How to handle the Challenge of the Crusades with Chris Check right now.

Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus.

I'm Cy Kellett, your host.

Opponents of the Catholic Church often use the Crusades as evidence for the corruption of Catholicism

and for the violence of religion in general.

Their point is that Christian claims to be a religion of

love and peace are debunked by the reality of the Crusades and not only that

religion itself is revealed to be violent and tribal. How can a person

engaged in apologetics respond to the use of the

crusades as evidence against the faith? To help us answer that question, we

welcome the president of Catholic answers. Chris Jack, hi Chris.

Cy, thanks for. Hi Chris.

Sigh, thanks for having me on.

So the Crusades, there's like three things, maybe four things that always get thrown up.

The Crusadesades the Inquisition and now I'm probably

forgetting one but Galileo oh Galileo those are the three yeah and Pius Pope Pius and the

Jews is another one.

Yeah, so that has been so thoroughly debunked.

However, these things are in many ways,

especially not just the facts of of the matter but the impression

that they're meant to generate are bunked all over the place they are

they are bunked we need to debunk them because everywhere in modern society they are bunked.

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