The ummah that was never there

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You need a way to motivate the troops to fight and telling them that they are dying to make some noble rich is not the way to go about it. Instead you give them horseshit like the above to fight for.

Well, they were also told that they were going to be rich. Of course I'm sure that religious fervor was a part of it, but most peasants knew that there was little to stay behind in europe, so they moved to engage the saracen to the east.

As for religious warfare in Europe here is a list which in general dates from later than your Hundred Years War question.

Well, these were generally politically motivated. Some princes chose to be with the protestants, some with the catholics. It's not really a matter of religion, it's a matter of sovereignity.

I'm afraid that xtians were no better than muslims when it came to spreading the word of their bloody god by the sword. They did eventually grow out of it but they have to be watched like hawks to prevent them slipping back in to that "let's kill everyone for fucking jesus" mode.

Well, there never was something like "let's kill everyone for Jesus" thing.
In fact, I don't know where in the bible this is commanded or whatever.
IT's a political and economic thing, as I tell you. The massacres that resulted from it..Well, that's how things went back then. My ancestors sacked loads of cities and burned loads of towns, killed and sold people to slavery...Before and after their conversion to Islam. Really, there isn't much of a difference.

I don't trust anyone who thinks an invisible friend talks to them.

Well, those are generally people who suffer from schizophrenia. No one I know even the most devout ones tell me that God speaks to them?