Did the Crusades Advance the Cause of Christ?

In the teachings of Christ it doesn 't state that sin can be exempted via large forms of money nor does it make sense that a person can be cleansed from the sin of murder when that person doesn 't regret it at all under the false belief that what they do is justified under some cause greater than themselves

Military conquest

The end result of the first Crusade was both the conquest of Jerusalem as well as several of the outlying regions close to it . The Crusades that came after also

conquered numerous territories at the expense of more blood and civilian lives . The end result was instead of spreading the word of Christ the Crusaders wound up conquering and pillaging numerous territories while supposedly under a "Holy " cause . The original purpose of the Crusades was to capture Jerusalem and prepare safe passage for pilgrims but what happened was the mindless ransacking of cities and the conquering of territories . In the Hollywood film "Kingdom of Heaven " we see can see that some Crusaders did not join the war for the sake of a religious cause rather it was due to the fact that to the victor goes the spoils . The numerous territories that were captured as shown in the film were given to the Crusaders as their own territories This created a culture wherein people believed that they could make new fortunes for themselves if they fought in the crusades . The film wasn 't a far depiction from reality with numerous territories in the region put under the control of high ranking crusaders and their numerous allies

Conclusion

Based on the fact that as a result of the Crusades numerous innocent people were slaughtered , that soldiers indiscriminately butchered people under the belief that what they were doing would be...