ANST - previous threads ... keltoi / religion / holy-days
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at bga.com
Sat Jan 24 02:16:33 PST 1998
On 23 Jan 98 at 17:25, Kateryn Heathrydge wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong (I have every faith someone will), but I
> seem to remember that the Templars made two very big mistakes:
>
> 1) they had extra money (not a big sin) ...
> 2) they loaned it cheap to important, broke people (big mistake)
they had a *lot* of money, and great amounts of land. plus they were
a organized military elite.
they were always a non-traditional order, and their time in the
middle east during the crusades changed them even further away from
the european-norm.
most importantly, being a order that prized knowledge, they brought
back many foreign ideas from the middle east that directly
threatened the "orthodoxy" of the church teachings.
ergo, they were a threat to status que of extant secular and
religious organizations and as such had to be destroyed. not to
mention, their wealth being re-distributed to those involved in the
destruction as reward for their services.
'wolf
... si vis pacem, para bellum
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