SR - Beginning new traditions

[Corey Van Zandt]

>
>Sir corWIN wrote:
>> Twas also period  to KILL ANYONE who Disagrees with your point of 
>> view!!.......anyone disagree?????????
>
>I ... er, Pug disagrees.  He was just telling me, yeah, about plenty
>of times that Moors and Jews interacted and lived in the same cities
>as Christians.  Plenty of times they *didn't*, of course.  I, er, he
>remembers the example (from _Christianity, Social Tolerance, and
>Homosexuality_?) of a fellow who converted to Islam while on Crusade,
>and then came home.  His family eventually did ask him to leave, but
>only because he insisted on eating meat on Fridays.
>
>On a secular plane, there's the example from Henry IInd's reign in
>England.  Rhys of Dheubarth, I think, was in Henry's court when he saw
>his enemies, a family who had seized much of his lands but which he
>had subsequently retaken.  Rhys said that it was a source of no small
>please that he had been defeated not by a mean and weak family, but by
>a great family of rare power and prowess (Pug was paraphrasing from
>memory here).  His enemies replied that, if they had to lose these
>lands, they could lose them to no one more acceptably than the great
>and noble prince before them.
>
>Phelim "you kill me, you have to administer the e-lists" Gervase
>-- 
>Pug.   Reply to pug at pug.net.
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Now stop and think.....I didn't say killing people who disagree with you 
was THE Rule....Just period....anything people did at that time would 
fall into that catagory....and that's a whole lotta stuff!


Sir Corwin Pugslayer




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