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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 10747522" data-attributes="member: 218596"><img src="http://dmbinns.com/crusadeimpact2_files/tourch_burning.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      <img src="http://www.a2armory.com/images/1-med-shields/crusades-sca.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      <img src="http://dmbinns.com/crusadeimpact2_files/tourch_burning.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />"The papal chair was then filled by Pope Clement III, who ordered a Crusade to be preached throughout all the countries of Christendom.--The History of the Christian Church  By William JonesFirst Edition 1812 - London"Crusaders - their more appropriate title would have been that of wolves; for, wherever they came, they robbed and pillaged without either regard to justice or mercy..."--The History of the Christian Church  By William JonesFirst Edition 1812 - London"Persuaded that heretics, or those who dissented from the Roman church, deserved the punishment of death, he favored the tribunal of the Inquisition; and the same turn of thinking led him to ascribe merit to a war against Infidels - the Crusades."--The History of the Christian Church  By William JonesFirst Edition 1812 - London"THE Crusades form one of the maddest episodes in history. Christianity hurled itself....in expedition after expedition for nearly three centuries. Millions perishedin battle, hunger, or disease; and every atrocity the imagination can conceive disgraced the warriors of the Cross."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Religious fanaticism gave birth to the Crusades. Modern apologists of Christianity have assigned other causes...But these are the excuses of a later age and a more timid faith. Hallam remarks that the Christian cry, "It is the will of God," proves the motive with which the Crusades were undertaken." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/apostasy_and_corruption/dadb8212037882/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://xda.xanga.com/db8c94e738433212037882/z165474249.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "The men who fought these wars under the church's banner would take a vow before the Pope or his priests and they would receive a cross to wear. Some called it "taking the cross". It also bestowed upon them a few "indulgences" or temporal privileges, such as not having to obey civil laws, as well as their lands, property and persons being safe from seizure. Tey only had to obey the laws of the church."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter ArchiveThe Crusaders - "Thence they marched to Constantinople...and the emperor supplied them with provisions, and as soon as they recovered strength they repaid his generosity by deeds of flagitiousness on his people. Palaces and churches were plundered to afford them means of intoxicationand excess. Michaud says that they committed crimes which made nature shudder. They killed children at the breast, scattered their limbs in the air, and carried their ravages to the very walls of the city of Nice."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler"The Third Crusade - a devotion to brutal license of rapine, prostitution and drunkenness. According to Michaud, they gave themselves up to intemperance; in tumultuous scenes of debauchery, and pillage, violation, and murderwere everywhere left as the traces of their passage. At Mersburgh they committed horrible outrages. On a trifling quarrel they impaled a young Hungarian in the market place."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/apostasy_and_corruption/c511f212039768/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://xc5.xanga.com/11ff11e600532212039768/z165475816.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "The Crusaders - The army of the cross, as they called themselves, next fell upon Constantinople. They entered the city without much resistance, putting every one to the sword who opposed them, and gave themselves up to all the excesses of avarice and fury. The booty alone, was valued at four hundred thousand marks of silver: the very churches were pillaged. The church of St. Sophia, after having robbed the altar they drenched the city in blood! Thus was this noble city, in that age the most flourishingin the Christian world, for the first time taken and sacked by Christians. One consequence of this was, that the pope gained, for a time, the whole Eastern church; a huge acquisition."--The History of the Christian Church  By William JonesFirst Edition 1812 - London"During the Crusades -The moral fabric of Europe, says Mills, was convulsed; the relations and charities of life were broken; society appeared to be dissolved." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Peter the Hermit led the second crusadeof forty thousand men, women and children, of all nations and languages. Arriving at Malleville they avenged their precursors by assaulting the town, slaying seven thousand of the inhabitants, and abandoning themselves to "every species of grossness and libertinism." According to Mills "virgin modesty was no protection," and "conjugal virtue no safeguard" against these sanctified soldiers of the cross."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/apostasy_and_corruption/91690212040223/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://x91.xanga.com/690826e6c8339212040223/z165476166.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "When the leaders of the crusading army arrived in Europe, the pope wrote a severe letter to the emperor, accusing him of having sacrificed the interests of Christianity by so long delaying the performance of his vow, and threatening him with immediate excommunication,if he did not instantly depart with an army into Asia."--The History of the Christian Church  By William JonesFirst Edition 1812 - London"Religious fanaticism was the chief motive of this Crusade, but it was mixed with others. The east was thought to abound in riches; the wealth gleamed on the imagination; and sensuality was allured by the fabulous flavor of oriental wines and the magical beauty of Grecian women. Avarice, ambition, and lust, co-operated with faith."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler Among the early French poems on the Crusades is one entitled 'The Leaguer of Antioch', of which Von Sybel gives an abbreviated translation about them eating the human fleshof those they had slain:"More than ten thousand, where in heaps the Paynim lay about.They hewed the corpses limb from limb, and disembowelled clean,And there was sodden meat and roast, to blunt their hunger keen:Right savory fare it seemed there; they smacked their lips and spake,--Farewell to fasts: a daintier meal than this who asks to make?'Tis sweeter far than porker's flesh, or bacon seethed in grease.Let's make good cheer, and feast us here, till life and hunger cease.'"--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler</blockquote>

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