ANST - templars ...
Donald Riney
dariusobells at hotmail.com
Fri May 8 06:50:59 PDT 1998
Just a side note to this thread, It shows very well that mixing religion
and politics can be a very dangerous thing. Live and let live, have a
good time. though I will note that many of the "heratics" tourtured and
killed during the inqusition, were killed due to political beliefes.
Darius
>On 7 May 98 at 16:06, Rick Wynne wrote:
>
>> I for one encourage religious freedom (I am a templar moderate
>> *grin*), and find that the many Pagans of An Tir who overcome their
>> initial discomfort over my persona come to find me fair and just in
>> my opinions and dealings. (By the way, the Templars *never* burned
>> any heretics-do not believe popular myth and even had friends among
>> the Saracens in Outremer).
>
>though many were burned by their church and former masters ...
>
>being a historian by training, and follower of things in the realms
>of "comparative religions" ... if memory serves, the templers came
>back from the middle east a entirely different order than when they
>left ... to a point that the church, in fear of their new unorthadoxy
>and eastern occult leanings (not to mention their new commercial
>power), finally rallied enough support to attempt to eradicate them
>... which only drove them (and their knowledge) underground, to be
>perpetuated and passed down by several "secret societies" ... most
>notable being the masonic orders (that perpetuated that knowledge and
>spread it in europe and into the new world ...)
>
>pattern sounds real familiar and reminds one that the "church"
>persecuted their own as well as those native cultures that they
>"conquered" ... should be several good lessons in there somewhere.
>
>'wolf
>
>... carpe ichthae
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