The separation of religion from state identity and the departure from militant Christianity amidst Protestant uproars may all be attributed to the fall of global Christendom.
Whichever the cause may be, the existence of knights to defend holy land and the innocent in the face of conflict with nations of opposing religions has always been a constant.
In fact, the greatest theologians were of these times, making no such claims of pacifism and reference to Jesus Christ’s words towards St. Peter before his crucifixion as justification for ridding of knights in the defense of religious freedom and Christian lands.
The separation of the Holy Church from a knightly order was the fall of global Christianity, likely brought upon slowly by the Protestant ideas of personal relationship with God and personal salvation, along with rejection of Church authority.
This infatuation with one’s own personal salvation is a rejection of faith, a faith that includes the world, the will of God, and the Apostolic mission of Christianity, to save the world. There is no such thing as having God’s will in my life, in my room, with my snuggly Bible. It must come upon earth and it must come upon all - the snuggly substitute is neither faith nor desirable, but a form of self pleasuring that one may achieve through reading any book that requires no strength to act or will to truly believe, but gives nice thoughts and feelings before bed.