<span>Because Catholic church wanted to control Jerusalem and they both believed in God. Sadley that meant killing all Jews, moslems, and non-Roman Catholic Christians that already lived there. The best way to do it was to let people think it was a war for God, that way they got more volunteers
Really hope that helps some how and if it dosen't so sorry;).....</span>
The big difference is that today's judgments have a legal rite. People should be judged with dignity, which was not always the case at that time, and condemnation must be evidence-based, which was not always respected either.
Another difference is that today there is no judgment based on supernatural situations, as was the case of the Witches of Salem. For a judgment made under the aegis of democracy, crime must have motives that can be substantiated. Finally, people who are tried today have a broad right of defense, which was not the case in the Middle Ages.
The answer is the Judicial Branch
That should be the scientific revolution. That's when people started abandoning the ideas that the church presented and they started focusing on science. It was then discovered that Earth is not in the center but rather goes around the Sun, and Newton made his laws and science and education flourished during that period.