"Silverman's point, he said, was that the term Crusaders refers to medieval military expeditions by Christians who "killed thousands and thousands of people with the encouragement of the Catholic Church."
Silverman should go stuff it where the sun doesn't shine.
I have it up to here with these idiot protestors who complain about everything - Indian Names, Crusaders, hunting scenes, you name it.
I LIKE Crusaders - I LIKE them a lot. Sure, they made some mistakes - but nobody's perfect. They flushed the Muslims out of the Holy Land for a few years and gave them a taste of their own medicine.
They flushed them out of Spain and Southern Italy and parts of the Eastern Mediterranean. Too bad they weren't around in 1429, they might have stopped madman Mehmet and saved Constantinople and we wouldn't be reading about nutacse Turks trying to block the re-opening of some monastery or seminary out there.
Silverman, I'm fed up with people like you who continually have to rant and rave over some wacko cause because, as another poster put it so well, you have too much time on your hands.
If people like Silverman had their way, we ALL would wake up, drive to work in our boring fuel efficient cars, slave at some mindless boring job, and then drive home, eat our vegan diet - alcohol free and cholesterol free of course - with no salt or sugar, watch some ridiculous sitcom and then go to bed. That's their perfect world - 1984 - right here and now with all of us acting, dressing, thinking and behaving like the same kind of mindless zombies.
So Silverman - SHOVE IT!!!
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Besides... everybody keeps on misspelling his name.
It's S L I V E R - D O R K !!! ;-))
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That 'shove it', I presume, is said with the same passion employed by Mrs. John F. Kerry, or am I wrong?