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To: prairiebreeze
Crusades as wars fought with the “noble aim” of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity

Including parts of France. They went up against Christians who happened to not be Roman. They also sacked Constantinople, which was Christian but not Roman.

28 posted on 03/19/2006 7:12:01 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: RightWhale
They also sacked Constantinople, which was Christian but not Roman.

Constantinople New Rome was the capitol of the Empire of Romania, inhabitated by a people who called themselves Romans, who spoke the Roman language of Greek, and who were called by their enemies the Turks and Arabs as Romans, and ruled over by a man styled the Roman Emperor who traced his ruling authority straight back to Heraclius, Justinian, Constantine, Augustus and Caesar. How were they not Romans?

When the Turks conquered this area they called it the Sultanate of Roum (Rome) - Anatolia, and the Sultanate of Roumelia (Little Rome) - Balkan Peninsula.

Time for some history education.

http://www.romanity.org/htm/frame_friesian_en.htm
http://www.romanity.org/index.htm

151 posted on 03/20/2006 8:09:14 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: RightWhale
Including parts of France. They went up against Christians who happened to not be Roman. They also sacked Constantinople, which was Christian but not Roman.

As if all these things happened in a vaccuum. You make it sound like Catholics were never persecuted, their Churches never raised, their priests and bishops never slaughtered just for being Catholic. Would you like a list of anti-Catholic atrocities?
295 posted on 03/23/2006 11:51:05 AM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
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