(May 18, 2012 at 6:47 pm)Polaris Wrote:(May 18, 2012 at 6:38 pm)Chuck Wrote: In what way, other than ecclesiatic bragging rights, did the great schism weaken christianity?
Well it actually managed to divide Christians and the Crusades were at times as much a conflict between the two Christian sides than it was between the Western Christians and the Moslems.
Now it is not nearly as destructive a break as the later Protestant movement would be though, mainly because the Protestant movement started within the confines of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church was in its own separate domain.
Oh, I mustn't have heard of the wholesale slaughter of Orthodox christians in the crusades.
The only real time that the catholic crusaders hit out at the Byzantine Empire was in the 4th crusade.
