To ask someone explain modern day crusades to me please.

[Fakebook]

I've found out someone is going on a "crusade" to India with a ministry. It's on fb. I've checked out their website and it states that its creator became a Christian through the miraculous healing of her horse .There are little snippets of people being healed from paralysis over the phone by hearing Jesus's name. There's also loads of spelling mistakes on the site, which isn't important, but it makes the whole thing sound and look even more bogus.

I didn't realise that crusades were still happening? Or a form of them? What exactly are these people doing? Are they forcing Christianity on to people to combat Islam? Or just preaching?

This isn't a thread against Christianity or religion, I just find this whole thing odd.

[Fakebook]

"to" missing from title.

[Fakebook]

Shameless bump. Must be a boring subject.

[Trills]

I assume they are going to go and try to convert people to Christianity, because they think that if they don't then these people will go to hell.

How well do you know this person?

[StuntGirl]

I know someone who left work for 6 months to go hand out Bibles in some war-torn country. Except it's too dangerous to go into that country, so they sort of hang around the borders with the next country and hand out Bibles to refugees.

Madness.

[Tee2072]

Exactly what it says; they are 'bringing god to the godless' or similar.

Smug self righteous crap, in other words.

The only good part is they don't do it by cutting off heads or starting an inquisition.

[Softlysoftly]

Aren't they missionaries but crusaders? I thought missionaries peacefully preached and tried to convert while crusaders went about stabbing people and recovering the Holy Lands?

[Softlysoftly]

*not crusaders

[TheOriginalLadyFT]

Being as the original crusades were shameless land grabs and rape-and-pillage holidays dressed up with a thin veneer of religion, one hopes the modern 'crusades' aren't looking to emulate that

[Fakebook]

Trills, she's an old school friend. She's seems proud of herself and her husband.

Stuntgirl, that's what I thought too; madness. They're going to quite a poor part of India aswell so it's like targeting poor people who will give up anything to get a better life.

And to call it a "crusade" is a bit unsettling.

[aldiwhore]

Exactly my thoughts TheOrginalLadyFT The crusades had violence at their heart... I've nothing against missionaries (well I have in a way, but so long as they're peaceful and are about spreading their 'good news' rather than disrespecting existing culures) but to call these things a 'crusade' is instantly creating the message that they are superior and acting with inappropriate force.

[Fakebook]

Softly, they're referring to the trip as a crusade. The ministry website refers to crusades around the world. I'm thinking they're extremists of some sorts.

[Tee2072]

Sounds very extreme. Perhaps they don't know the history of the word?*

*Clutching at straws and giving the benefit of the doubt!