[Sax]

The document, known as the Chinon parchment, reveals that the Templars had an initiation ceremony which involved "spitting on the cross", "denying Jesus" and kissing the lower back, navel and mouth of the man proposing them.

The Templars explained to Pope Clement that the initiation mimicked the humiliation that knights could suffer if they fell into the hands of the Saracens, while the kissing ceremony was a sign of their total obedience.,/p>

The Pope concluded that the entrance ritual was not truly blasphemous...

There, now that's all cleared up...I guess...can't really see how anyone could possibly get the wrong idea here...

[timer]

Are they finally fessing up that the french king and the pope were nothing more than bank robbers? The Knights Templar were europe’s bankers for 200 years. They got rich by plundering under the temple mount(the 9 poor soldiers of christ were themselves bank robbers). The Knights Templar live on as the swiss bankers of today...they also came in at the battle of bannockburn in 1314 as the crucial relief force that carried the day for the scots, thus scotland became a free nation until 1700. Prince Henry of Portugal(the navigator)was also a grand master of the KT.

[sono]

Kinda extends the concept of Breaking News LOL.

[SunkenCiv]

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