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To: Pyro7480; Lil'freeper

Very disappointing. I was really looking forward to this movie. Guess I won't be seeing it. The black legend of the Crusades, as with many black legends about the Catholic Church, was created by the Protestants to attack the Church. I was hoping that recent events might have caused some to revisit the Crusades in a more historically accurate way.


7 posted on 04/14/2005 11:42:48 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." Pope JPII)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Well, to give the benefit of the doubt to at least the movie, the content of the movie may not reflect the content of the director, since the movie does supposedly portray the massacre of a Crusader force trapped in a city. If they somehow portray the Crusaders as "deserving" it, then it deserves not to be seen.


9 posted on 04/14/2005 11:44:39 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady." - Tolkien)
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To: big'ol_freeper
...was created by the Protestants to attack the Church.

Oh please.....

13 posted on 04/14/2005 11:48:28 AM PDT by ksen ("He that knows nothing will believe anything." - Thomas Fuller)
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To: big'ol_freeper

I've also been looking forward to it. I've been on a Crusade mode in my book selections recently. I believe there were atrocities on both sides. I certainly don't believe that the Muslims were the innocent oppressed people that many are claiming. So far I think I'll still see it.

One of my wishes is that a good movie would be made about Richard the Lion-Heart. I don't know of many people who had a more interesting life.


17 posted on 04/14/2005 11:56:56 AM PDT by loreldan
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