When attempting to gain power, inconvenient truths are often ignored by those in charge of crafting the narrative. One such narrative we see today is the idea that the crusades are a dark blotch on the history of Christ's church. These crusades are depicted as being a time when Christians wrongly pillaged non-believing communities and forced individuals to convert or die at the hand of sword. However, myself and many others like me have often wondered what inconvenient truths are being ignored in order to craft this narrative of evil Christians neglecting Christ's teachings and killing innocents? On This episode of Forge and Anvil I will be joined by author Raymond Ibrahim to ask the question: Were the crusades really as bad as we've been told? All this and more.