Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Connections between St. Augustine and the Crusades

St. Augustine was a G

he robbed his neighbors pears for fun and slept with women for fun

TONNNN of women
but then settled down with one soon after
and had crazy sex with her....as so i was told according to mr basinger's packet

anywayssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss


Mr. St. Augustine presented the Just War theory and believed that war was a sin but at the same time there was no way to avoid it completely. He believed that since war was inevitable, that they should make the best out of it when it happens, which is to achieve peace at the end. Here are his seven principles of his Just War theory:

1. Last resort-war is initiated after all non-violence propositions have been used.
2. Initiated by the government or higher power-war is only just if an authoritative figure approves that it is justified.
3. Chance of success-war can only be fought if there is a chance at success.
4. Right intentions-the only objective of war is to solve a problem or for self defense.
5. Re-establish peace-war should improve peace that existed before the war or would exist if the war hadn't occurred.
6. Proportionality-during war one should use the minimum a mount of force to obtain the objective/violence used in war must be proportional to the injury suffered.
7. Don't attack civilians-civilians are never the target of war and all measures to avoid killing them should be used.

St. Augustine justified that war could bring peace. This theory was not always obeyed even though it made of sense. The Crusades justified their war similar to what St. Augustine had taught about re-establishing peace.

The Crusaders justification of war was to take the Holy Land, Jerusalem at the time from the Muslims. They believed that it did not belong to them and that it should remain under the Church's power.They believed they had a high chance of success for them because they believed that God was on their side and he would wipe out the non-believers. They also said that the Muslims attacked them first because they took the Holy Land from them. Trying to take their land back, they caused thousands of deaths in an attempt for peace.

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