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We have returned to the Levant, we have returned apparently more as masters than ever we were during the struggle of the Crusades—but we have returned bankrupt in that spiritual wealth which was the glory of the Crusades. - Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades, 1937 In our age the Crusades are described as barbaric, wasteful, shameful, and even sinful.​​​​​Rarely are they called glorious. This is because the modern world embraces a false narrative about the Crusades. This false story, h …

"Although the world of today has a very vivid awareness of its unity and of how one man depends on another in needful solidarity, it is most grievously torn into opposing camps by conflicting forces. Influenced by such a variety of complexities, many of our contemporaries are kept from accurately identifying permanent values and adjusting them properly to fresh discoveries. As a result, buffeted between hope and anxiety and pressing one another with questions about the present course of events, …