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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 10747526" data-attributes="member: 218596"><a href="http://photo.xanga.com/apostasy_and_corruption/4dadb212040570/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://x4d.xanga.com/adbc74f018431212040570/z165476469.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "In Jerusalem, walls and fortifications were being torn down to prevent the Christians from using them for defense if they should reach the city and take it...Fearing a repeat of the bloodbath during the First Crusade...."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter ArchiveConcerning the Crusaders it was said -"the rudeness and ferocity of the soldiersof Christ....the zeal of the Christian sects was embittered by hatred and revenge; and in the kingdom of a suffering Messiah, who had pardoned his enemies, they aspired to command and persecute their spiritual brethren." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Such was the conquest of Jerusalem by the bloody warriors of the cross. There is no blacker chapter in the world's history; and justice condemns the expedition as wicked and insane, and truth brands alike the soldiers and their religious chiefs as the vilest horde of pious savages that ever polluted the earth."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "The Third Crusade - Like other Crusades, this one was marked by the grossest debauchery.They indulged in the worst excesses. Three hundredwomen arrived from Cyprus and the Greek islands, and prostituted themselves in the Christian camp, while the Saracens beheld the spectacle with disgust.  Michaud sums up the depravity of the soldiers of the cross by saying that all the vices of Europe and Asia had met in one spot."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "Constantinople was the capital city of a Christian empire, but the Crusaders sacked it as though it were inhabited by Saracens. The Crusaders put to the sword every Greek they met with on entering the city. "It was a horrible spectacle," says old Villehardouin.--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "The scenes of female violation," says Mills, "need not be described." According to Gibbon, "the deeds of darkness, fornication, adultery, and incest, were perpetrated in open day; and noble matrons and holy nuns were polluted by the grooms and peasants of the Catholic camp.What a spectacle! How proudly the bannered cross must have floated over the scene! "--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/apostasy_and_corruption/7be74212041099/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://x7b.xanga.com/e74c82e541d33212041099/z165476929.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "Europeans, by this time, were only interested in Crusades that served their own purposes.Charles tried to take advantage of the vacancy of the Holy See to attack Constantinople but was not able to, due to the negotiations of the Pope with Michael Palaeologus of Constantinople for religious reunion."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter Archive"Pope Innocent IV, tried to call another crusade but to no avail since no leader of France would step forward. Pope Innocent IV's problems with Frederick II were another reason for the failure."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter Archive"The Sixth Crusade (1228 – 1229 AD)Frederick II, who was supposed to lead the great crusade, kept asking the Pope for delays. In 1227, after Gregory IX became pope, he called Frederick to do his duty and set off for Palestine. Frederick II soon turned back however and Pope Gregory IX, fed up, ex–communicated him."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter Archive"Nearly a million soldiers of Christ, of all ages and conditions, and of both sexes, had perished in less than two years; to say nothing of those who fell victims to their cruelty and fanaticism. So many crimes and so much misery have seldom been accumulated in so short a space as in the three years of the first expedition."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "in the short space of a month, the character of the Christian soldiers before Jerusalem had become as immoral as it had been in the long and painful siege of Antioch.  After a procession round Jerusalem, in the fashion of the ancient circuit of Jericho, led by barefooted priests carrying crosses and shouting "Deus id vult," a fresh assault was made on the city, which was at length successfully stormed on Good Friday. They erected their banners on the walls of Jerusalem. Instead of making the "holy hour" an occasion for mercy, the Crusaders acted like wild beasts, and turned the city of the sepulchre of Christ into a hell of rapine, murder and lust. The Christians abused the victory by filling Jerusalem with blood and carnage."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "A bloody sacrifice was offered by the crusadersto the God of the Christians: neither age nor sex could mollify their implacable rage. They indulged themselves three days in a promiscuous massacre; and the infection of the dead bodies produced an epidemical disease. Even the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "The Saracens were massacred in the streets and in the houses by the crusaders. Nothing was heard but the groans and cries of death; the victors trod over heaps of corpses in pursuing those who vainly attempted to escape. Raymond d'Argiles, who was an eye-witness, says that under the portico of the mosque the blood was knee-deep and reached the horses' bridles."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "Such was the carnage of Omar, that the mutilated carcasses were hurried by the torrents of blood into the court; dissevered arms and hands floated into the current that carried them into contact with bodies to which they had not belonged. Ten thousand people were murdered in this sanctuary. It was not only the lacerated and headless trunks which shocked the sight, but the figures of the victors themselves reeking with the blood of their slaughtered enemies. No place of refuge remained to the vanquished, so indiscriminately did the insatiable fanaticism of the conquerors disregard alike supplication and resistance. Some were slain, others were thrown from the tops of the churches and of the citadel." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "After paying their devotion to Christ, and worshipping on the various spots that were hallowed by his presence, the Crusaders resumed the murder of his enemies. Three hundred prisoners, to whom Tancred had promised safety, were perfidiously massacred.  Neither the tears of women, nor the cries of little children, nor the sight of the place where Jesus Christ forgave his executioners, could mollify the victor's passion"--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "The subjugated people were therefore dragged into the public places, and slain as victims. Women with children at the breast, girls and boys, all were slaughtered.  The squares, the streets, and even the uninhabited places of Jerusalem, again were strewed with the dead bodies of men and women, and the mangled limbs of children, No heart melted into compassion or expanded into benevolence." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/APOSTASY_AND_CORRUPTION/2396d212059621/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://x23.xanga.com/96dc92f772030212059621/z165492776.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "Crusades were also the result of ambitious popes who sought to extend their political and religious power. Crusading armies were, in a sense, the military arm of papal policy."--History of ByzantiumCrusades - Hypocrisy of Western Nations"historians have pointed to the...fact that the Crusades offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen. The expeditions are also seen as offering rich commercial opportunities known as "plundering"to the merchants of the growing cities of Italy,particularly the cities of Rome, Genoa, Pisa, and Venice."--History of ByzantiumCrusades - Hypocrisy of Western Nations"After the end of the Fourth Crusade it became apparent to many that the soldiers had just plundered goods from abroad rather than gain any long term success. Many Christians had never even reached the Holy Land."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter Archive"Amid the pursuits of piety and murder, the Crusaders did not neglect to enrich themselves. Each soldier became the owner of any house at whose portal he set his buckler. The treasures of the mosques were devoted to the Christian Church."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/APOSTASY_AND_CORRUPTION/97f77212104417/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://x97.xanga.com/f778571b18538212104417/z165532096.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "Carrion was openly dressed," says Mills, and human flesh was eaten in secret. Cannibalism was carried to a great extent by the lowest of the low and the camp-followers made a virtue of it.  They liked nothing so well to eat as the roasted flesh of their enemies." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Gibbon also says of the Crusaders that "in the dire necessity of famine, they sometimes roasted and devoured the flesh of their infant or adult captives.They slew some Turkish prisoners and roasted them publicly. Cannibalism was also resorted to at the siege of Marra. One chronicler dryly says there is nothing surprising in the matter, and wonders that they sometimes ate dogs in preference to Saracens."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Mutilation of the dead was indulged in as a sportby the crusaders. The heads of two thousand Turks, who fell in a sortie from Antioch, were cut off; some were exhibited as trophies, others were fixed on stakes round the camp, and others shot into the town. On another occasion they dragged theirvictims corpses from their sepulchres, and exposed fifteen hundred heads to the weeping Turks."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Fighting for Christ did not keep the Crusaders chaste. During the siege of Antioch they gave the rein to their passions, and seldom does the history of profane wars display such scenes of intemperance and prostitution as did the Crusades.  A neighborhood once devoted to the worship of Venus and Adonis, spread license and corruption among the soldiers of Christ." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "All the vices of the infamous Babylon prevailed among the tents of the Crusaders.Voluptuousness formed a hideous union withimpure love, an unbounded passion for play, with all the excesses of debauchery mingled with the images of death."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "The dignity of age, the helplessness of youth, and the beauty of the weaker sex, were disregarded by the crusading savages and their cruelty.  The number massacred on this night was at least ten thousand."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "The passion for plunder had been stilled by the thirst for blood:  When, however, every species of habitation, from the marble palace to the meanest hovel, had been converted into a scene of slaughter, when the narrow streets and the spacious squares were all alike disfigured with human gore, and crowded with mangled carcasses, then the assassins turned robbers, and became as mercenary as they had been merciless." --Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  "The Crusaders ate, drank, and indulged in the wildest debauchery. Unbounded license was given to every passion.  They slaughtered all the inhabitants at Marra, and devoured their flesh; and it is even said that human flesh was publicly exposed for sale in the Christian camp.  The streets ran with blood until theirferocity was tired."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler  <a href="http://photo.xanga.com/APOSTASY_AND_CORRUPTION/fc380212061894/photo.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://xfc.xanga.com/380c80eb70033212061894/z165494737.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> "Fighting and backstabbing went on for another 21 years. So it would be truthful to say that while there were 8 called crusades, there was in reality only one long crusade lasting almost two hundred years from 1095 to 1291."--The Crusades - An Overview"The Shield and Sword"Newsletter Archive"Besides the incalculable evils they directly caused, the Crusades led to the slaughter of the Northern innocents, the massacre of the Albigenses, and the other wholesale cruelties with which the Papacy afterwards desolated Europe."--Crimes of ChristianityChapter IX - The CrusadesG W Foote & J M Wheeler "Enough, and more than enough, has been said to convince the reader of the deplorable state of darkness and superstition which reignedthroughout Europe, to say nothing of Asia and Africa, during this period. The Crusades being conducted under the immediate protection of the Roman church....the Venetians and Genoese, thereby acquired immense sums of money, and at the same time opened to themselves a new source of wealth, by importing into Europe the plundered commodities of Asia. The cities of Italy grew rich and powerful, and obtained extensive privileges."-- Hume’s History of England, vol. 1, ch. 5. Robertson’s Charles V. vol. 1, APPENDIX. Russel’s History of Modern Europe, vol. 1, LETT. 25, 27, 30, 31, 32, 34.] `````````````<img src="http://www.free-animations.co.uk/dividers_animated/images/divider_3.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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