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>>You might see a crusader painting here and there, but that's definitely in the minority
They are really the same same thing or at least the same ideal, it was Germanics who made Christianity a warrior cult. The Templars/Teutons even still used runes up until their complete annihilation. The spear has a place in Christianity not because of Jesus but because of the one eyed god who stares at me from the dark. All Germanic languages use the word God, which is a form of Gautr which is a Germanic deity. All Romantic languages use the original Deus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaut
To the Gothics whose patron god was usually God who was a deity of weapons. The Visi-Gothic word for weapon is gun, while the normal word for weapon in Saxon is seax. These are named as so because to Saxons their "weapon" god is Saxnot but for Goths and Vandals its God, unknown the stories of Saxnot and God but here's a Gothic poem you might like, strangely enough it seems to occur with relative frequency with minor changes throughout the years of the history of our people.
"The mighty Gaut bless our arms when the time comes. Be peerless just has you always are, judge by yourself [and only yourself] whether we deserve our freedom. Ferra bless our fighters …"
God is only for your weaponry while probably Ferra if being Freyr can only bless the people actually fighting. In Saxon during the dabble into Christian mythos you see the word Lord becoming Freyr as well check out Caedmon's hymn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cædmon%27s_Hymn
>>metudæs maecti end his mōdgidanc
It even mentions Wotan as well.
>>æfter tīadæ firum foldu, Frēa allmectig.
It switches near the end to say, "Then the guardian of mankind…", this poem was written before the modern concept of "angles"/valkyries existed so it is doubtful to be talking about a particular Christian Angel. Instead it is much more likely that, "Frēa allmectig" translated "Lord the mighty" by most is really about Freyr similar to that previous Gothic poem.
From what I have translated from Saxon manuscripts the key ideal of the Germanic religion doesn't care about semantics but instead triumph. The Saxon originally "converted" to get the Christian starter pack of technology in order to have a one up on the competition similar to the Franks. Though the Saxon took it father starting their own church later to fight Frankish incursion which caused an expansion in many smaller religious sects taking more power away from Rome. The Pope didn't like the Magna Carta as well.
The Germanic gods like and reward you for winning and do not like to have their names tarnished by your incompetence, well at least the ones you should care about do. It really doesn't matter do them what you personally believe because they are in your blood until you loose your blood by ending your line with either offspring of a foreign folk or having no children, this is how you may bring their ire too.