OK I will bite. Why was he quoting the old German guy if he didnt agree? And given that the guy had been dead for many hundreds of years, what caused it to just mysteriously pop out of his mouth. Did God make him say it? For a man of peace, I find it difficult that the pope didnt know he was throwing gasoline on a burning fire. Hell why didnt he just call for a fourth crusade to rid the Holy Land of non-believers?
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"OK I will bite. Why was he quoting the old German guy if he didnt agree?"
Did I not just quote you? Does that mean we agree? And he didn't quote an old German guy. He quoted a Byzantine emperor. He was Greek and not German.
I think you have bitten off more than you know what to do with.
"And given that the guy had been dead for many hundreds of years, what caused it to just mysteriously pop out of his mouth."
Nothing mysterious about it. He just read a book in which the quote appeared. You really haven't been following this story have you?
"Did God make him say it? For a man of peace, I find it difficult that the pope didnt know he was throwing gasoline on a burning fire."
I don't. All he did was quote someone. He never said the quote was true. He also never said it was untrue. He merely quoted it as an example. He assumed, incorrectly, that people wouldn't make fools of themselves over this quote because he was NOT using it to attack anyone, but only as an illustration of part of his discussion. He forgot, or has yet to learn, that Muslims are wackos and don't care about context.
"Hell why didnt he just call for a fourth crusade to rid the Holy Land of non-believers?"
Because there already was a Fourth Crusade (around A.D. 1200). There were seven or eight crusades in fact.
I think you should stick to snacks you don't have to chew.