What did the christian church hope to obtain by challenging the christians to participate in the crussades?

What did the christian church hope to obtain by challenging the christians to participate in the 1st crussade?|||Land. Riches. Fun times killing Infidels.|||i would say in the first place that it is not a christian church, if it is a christian church they should follow Christ's example, when he was smote he took it, when he was struck on the cross he prayed for us, christ's name is been put to shame by such an act, christ didn't give any authority,

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|||when peter took the sword and cut the ear of the soldier Christ took the ear and fixed it, christ told he that taketh the sword will be slain by the sword, christianity is all about love of God towards humanity, why would one go for war, it is to have control or power over them

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|||There were alot of idle, hungry, people. The crusades were a way to give them focus and get them out of town. Europe of the middle ages was not the Roman Empire part 2, it was Vandals and other warrior people, part 2. The crusades were, like the conquest of Rome, poor hungry people looking to rip off civilized, wealthy people.





To support his temporal power, Popes would declare crusades against their enemies just as a radical Islamist leader would issue a fatwa.