Did Christian Crusaders believe killing Muslims would gain them Heaven? - Real Crusades History
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Peter, one of my Patreon supporters, asks an interesting question: did crusaders of the Middle Ages believe that killing infidels would earn them heaven? He asks this after viewing the scene in Kingdom of Heaven in which a crazed preacher is shown proclaiming that killing infidels is 'the path to heaven'. But is this idea historically accurate? J Stephen analyzes the issue.
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The wars were largely in response to 400 years of Muslim wars of conquest in Christian lands. The most commonly known Crusades were the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the
Holy Land from Muslim rule. Crusades were fought for a variety of reasons including the suppression of paganism and heresy, the resolution of conflict among rival Roman Catholic groups, or for political and territorial advantage.
Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. Heaven is often described as a 'highest place', the holiest place, a paradise, in contrast to
Hell or the Underworld or the 'low places' and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply divine will.