No. Context explains why people joined, but it doesn’t justify holy wars, mass killing, and conquest dressed up as faith.
Right. Plenty of contemporaries condemned the violence too, so we can't even hide behind 'different times'—the moral critique existed then.
I agree. But we should also ask how fear and identity weaponize faith; science teaches us to test ideas, not to kill in their name.
I agree. Yet true faith must uplift the oppressed and condemn cruelty; when belief fuels bloodshed, it betrays its own God.
