[Sca-cooks] Crusades and cannibalism

[vongraph]

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> Not anywhere as simple as that, and I think you know it.
>
> They were considered human. I would like to see the 'church decree' that
> you refer to, becasue I have plenty others that give clear instructions to
> attempt conversion- and you can only convert a human being. There were
> plenty of arguments over whether or not the Saracens had sould, and the
> conclusion was that yes, they did. They were damned, but they had them.

I beleive the decree stated that anyone participating in the Crusades would
be considered doing the work of God in freeing the Holy Land. Therefore any
"acts" performed during such Wars would not be sins.  Now though I was being
sarcastic, you are not really trying to tell me the Cursades were about
converting people  to Christanity are you?  What I was trying to make point
of was is the fact that if it was OK to rape kill plunder etc, a little
cannablism was not to far out of the picture.  I simply have a problem with
people who somehow make the Crusaders out to be these God fearing Righteous
folks doing only what was necessary to "free" the Holy Land. And the concept
that the Holy Church was looking to have all those folks converted or
expected them to be is ridiculeous.

Elric