In the last post we looked at the rise of Abrahamic religions. We saw that each had attributed scared value to certain areas. This religious attachment to the land explains why the middle east is such a highly contested area. The crusades are the most obvious example of this. For hundreds of years armies marched from europe to Jerusalem for the religious value it held. Today both the Jewish Israel and Muslim Palestine fight over the this land. However, much has changed since the time of the crusades, and Christianity has lost it's stake in the area. The Christian population has been in decline for deacdes now.
This can be explaind by the spread of Christianity around the globe. After the rennaisance European factions spread around the globe and bought their religion with them. This made Christianity a more tolerant religion out of necessity. It would be impossible to have the Spanish Inquisition prosecute the entire world.
This tolerance for other religions made Christians less inclined to fight Muslims and Jews for control of the Holy Land, and their grip on it was wrenched away through religious prosecution by both sides.
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