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Although it is a popular notion that the crusades of the
Eleventh through Thirteenth Century Europe were launched to spread
Christianity, it is a seldom realized fact that they were actually
launched to spread the worship of the Greek God Dionysus. While
many fundamentalist radicals and even some historians who ought to
know better will dispute this,it is,nevertheless,true.
During the Middle Ages in Europe,there were a series of ten
religious crusades launched over a period of three centuries.It is
commonly believed that these were organized and carried out by
Christian religious leaders to unite more territory under the red
and white flag of their cherished religion. The fact that accounts
of the Crusades were recorded as they are in the history books is
due to the overwhelming influence exerted by overzealous religious
leaders on historians of the day.It is an unfortunate fact that
little remains of the historical representations of what actually
happened.......

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