To: Longinus
The emperor (Byzantine) never requested a holy war or imparted a religious dimension to his request for military assistance.
More generalizations lacking substance. You have apparently never heard of the Early Church Fathers and what they have to say about Muslims. You avoid mentioning the many many wars against Muslims that Byzantium fought for hundreds of years before the west work up to the dangers.
40 posted on
03/26/2007 8:11:08 AM PDT by
eleni121
( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great))
To: eleni121
Stamata.
The Holy Fathers were and are right about Islam but the Crusade is a heresy to the Orthodox.
The Emperor only requested military aid from the West - no Eastern Orthodox Christian accepted the premise of the Crusade - that if you die in combat with a Muslim during a Crusade you get your sins forgiven and you go to heaven. Alithia or psemata?
43 posted on
03/26/2007 8:20:21 AM PDT by
Longinus
("Whom did it benefit". (Cui Bono Fuerit) Longinus Cassius Roman conspirator & general (? - 42 BC))
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