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Vatican change of heart over 'barbaric' Crusades
UK Times online ^
| March 20, 2006
| Richard Owen
Posted on 03/19/2006 6:44:46 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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To: eleni121
Too tempting? The barbarity with which the 4th "crusade" undertook to destroy the Byzantine capital defies logic and belief.
If the Byzantines had managed to present a united front and not continuously and viciously fought against each other, Constantinople might never have fallen to the adventurers of the so-called 4th crusade.
"The soldiery burned libraries in their campfires, and though nominal Christians, they held ribald orgies in Aghia Sophia, while prostitutes performed filthy actions and dances on the very altar."
I suppose the "crusaders" brought the prostitutes with them? Prostitution and all kinds of other lawlessness were a recurring problem in Constantinople.
There was plenty of corruption on both sides to make the sack of Constantinople a blot on the history of Eastern and Western Christendom.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:23:30 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals regardless of their party affiliation.)
To: Antoninus
Nothing - even your lame and frankly unChristian excuses - can exculpate the barbaric behavior of the rabble of the 4th "crusade".
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:43:21 AM PDT
by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: eleni121
Nothing - even your lame and frankly unChristian excuses - can exculpate the barbaric behavior of the rabble of the 4th "crusade".
Who's doing that? These guys were barbaric. But to say that the Byzantines were just pathetic supine victims in all this is ludicrous.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:55:47 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals regardless of their party affiliation.)
To: Antoninus
It wasn't the Byzantine Christians who raped and pillaged Rome now was it?
Stop with your blaming the victims tripe.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:12:46 AM PDT
by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: All
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04/14/2006 10:40:50 AM PDT
by
big'ol_freeper
(..it takes some pretty serious yodeling to..filibuster from a five star ski resort in the Swiss Alps)
To: madison10
"Jesus was the eldest, it was, until his dying breath, His duty to find the BEST care for His mother. James, Jude, Joses and/or Simon were not it. " So Protestants regard Mary being "full of Grace" as nothing more than a common thing.
To: Coleus; firebrand; ELS
Wasn't sure if you had seen this...
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06/21/2006 8:37:16 AM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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