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Anti-Christian Stories You Probably Learned in School, and the Truth Behind Them

By The Stream Published on January 30, 2025

Catholic Youtuber Brian Holdsworth breaks down the myths that secular historians, starting in the Enlightenment, spread about the history of the Church — especially the claim that the Crusades were an unprovoked war of aggression against tolerant Muslim countries and the notion that the Inquisition was a massive totalitarian apparatus with millions of innocent victims. Both claims were weaponized by enemies of Christian faith and are repeated in our textbooks to this day.