What religion meant for these knights? Religion was their way for salvation, the perfect excuse to kill and to sack Saracens, of course... but did they actually know something about Christ, God or anything? The Bible was in Latin, but even in vernacular languages, most of the people were illiterate, even among nobility. They probably knew about Trinity and they probably knew something about Jesus v.e. his miracles. However, it is improbable the knew about deep theological questions or the about the meaning of their own believes.
It is actually amazing that those kind of people, with their very undetermined faith, were absolutely certain to be in the right side. They did not need to actually know the meaning of their believes, but only they needed to know that they were right.
Priest were also part of this status quo. They did not want to enlighten the knights, but to put them to fight to some other people, like the Saracens, and to avoid them to fight between themselves. In that way they turned Christianity in to an hieratic religion, and knowledge was reserved only for God himself and his clergy.
The only possible result of that way of thinking is the creation of blind certainty of being right only because somebody else said so, and beginning to get used to stop thinking by oneself. Rightness or wrongness is not any more an issue that requires analysis and thinking, but the result of certain interpretation of of a book written in mysterious language by a god ans told by a privileged class of priests.
Is it possible to see that kind of faith nowadays?
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