Who should apologize for the Crusades? I heard it was started by some Pope.?

Everyone who should apologize...as well as everyone who should be apologized to...for the Crusades died a very long time ago. The fact that anyone would hurt someone today as a result of such long ago events is simply baffling to any reasonable person.

Islam had swallowed two-thirds of the Christian world before Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade. Charles Martel, Charlemagne's grandfather, narrowly defeated the Umayyid Caliphate at the Battle of Tours in 732. That they made it as far as France in so short a time attests to the inherently warlike nature of Islam. It was born in blood and propagates itself through violence. Had the Crusades never occurred, Christianity would almost certainly be dead and the entire world Islamic.

No one. We forgive and forget and press on towards a better tomorrow.

One of the popes - John Paul II - did make an apology back in 2000. He put a note to God in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

Pope John Paul II arrived in Israel March 21, 2000, for a historic five-day visit, during which he visited the holy sites of the three major religions and met with Israel’s political leaders and Chief Rabbis. Though ostensibly a trip focused on religion, the Pope also touched on political issues, blessing Israel, expressing support for a Palestinian homeland and apologizing for sins committed by Christians against Jews.

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He also visited the Western Wall and inserted a letter in a crack that read:

God of our fathers,

You chose Abraham and his descendants

to bring your Name to the Nations:

we are deeply saddened

by the behaviour of those

who in the course of history

have caused these children of yours to suffer,

and asking your forgiveness

we wish to commit ourselves to

genuine brotherhood

with the people of the Covenant.

Jerusalem 26, March 2000

Signed: John Paul II

the pope maybe, we should move on though. If the crusades never happened then either Christianity would be a minor faith hidden around or would have moved to east asia/ sub saharan africa.

No one should. All those responsible are dust. Just as all those responsible for the thousands of Jihads against Christendom through to the late 1700's are all dust.

We shouldn't apologise for the Crusades anymore than we should apolgise for colonialism.

I didn't do it.

The persons who committed the wrong should apologize.

Muslims. They caused it...ask yourself...why? Think?

Try to think. Muslims almost took over all of Europe...like now.

Was he taking the p!ss?

the people that did it

we are judged by God when we die