Pastors and Evangelists: For God's Sake STOP Calling it a Crusade!

Christian Pastors and Evangelists: When you call your outreach a Crusade, you are automatically offending Jewish people and preventing them from hearing your message of Jesus' love.

Here is why:

The Crusades were a series of military expeditions conducted by European Christians in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries to conquer the land of Israel from the Muslims or to repel their counterattacks, but they also focused on raping and murdering Jews.

The explicit cause of the Crusades were the reports received from Jerusalem concerning the maltreatment of Christian pilgrims and the manner in which their access to the Holy Places was obstructed. In many of these reports, the malevolence of the Jews was also stressed, so that from the beginning the ground was prepared for including the Jews in the freshly stimulated animosity against the unbelievers: indeed, at the period of the analogous expeditions of French knights to assist the Spanish Christians against the Moors (c. 1065), the Jews of Narb…