Jews to the Christians were horrific people that were forced to remove themselves …show more content…
With a total of eight major crusade wars, the first crusade war, in Byzantium, began during the early summer of 1096 initially to secure all Holy sacred sites and recapture the Holy Land said by Rodulfus. Hearing of the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre caused a major uprising between the Jews and the Christians, and said by Pope, making it a major cause of the war. People assembled from all over to express their strong hate toward the Jews by killing them, making the crusade wars extremely bloody and violent. The Jews were hunted down and slaughtered into pieces by the crusaders. Showing no sympathy, the crusaders made sure to find every single Jew and make sure they suffered for what they had done. The Pope had the great desire to defend the Eastern Christians whom suffered from awful treatment of Turks. Christians were murdered, and their Holy sites were brutally attacked and destroyed in front of their own eyes. Penitential warfare was brought up as a factor of war. If the bible says a person shall not kill, then why participate in a war with the killing of others? They strongly believed that any type of crusading was penance. To participate was considered a good deed, even if it did involve the killings of other people. Crusaders thought to believe that it was God taking control of war and that the sin of killing was put aside because they were doing a good deed for him by killing the enemies of