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He begins with the contemporary story of evangelical Christians proselytizing in the U.S. Air Force and follows the dark corridor of religious scapegoating through the Crusades, the Roman Empire, the Inquisition, the Holocaust - and to the Iraq war, where Muslims have replaced Jews as the unchosen ones in a government's "crusade." He calls out popes, including the current Benedict XVI, for not fully reconciling the church's past sins. The film's title refers to the Roman Emperor Constantine, who... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
interesting forum on Iran at Mother Jones Jul 4, 2008
" How helpful is it, in your opinion, for those of us on the left to keep reminding Israelis that, whatever other obstacles there may be to peace, the sixty-year-old Israeli dispossession of many Palestinians, continued maltreatment of them, disproportionate violence in Lebanon, and close cooperation with the oppressive Pahlavi regime in Iran are very much live grievances in Iran and throughout the region, and that addressing these historic injustices might enormously reduce threats to Israeli... (Harper's Magazine)
Rumsfeld's torturous defense Jul 3, 2008
We are the product of the Crusades. It was the Crusades that produced our ancestoral lore about Aladdin and the Forty Thieves ... all came from the Crusades. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
We Have a Lot to Learn From 'Over There' Jun 27, 2008
Location: TX Reply # 8 Date: Jun 27, 2008 - 7:05 AM EST Neocons like the EU They see it as co-optable, via NATO, for their foreign crusades. They like former communist countries in Eastern Europe being sucked into the globalist fiat-money system. (Townhall.com)
Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over Jun 26, 2008
The newspaper continued as the watchdog for the common man, demanding accountability and transparency from government leaders, providing unparalleled election coverage, and continuously leading crusades against high taxation and frivolous spending. By 2006, declines in advertising due to the downturns in the automotive industry and in real estate, coupled with dramatic and ever-increasing costs of newsprint, ink, postage and energy, along with the migration of newspaper classified advertising... (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
Nation's Spies: Climate Change Could Spark War Jun 25, 2008
but when u think of the crusades or the initial spread of islam through wars; it was not for resources because the lands in question were continents away from the home bases of the aggressors; but purely religious zeal. --- i know its all way off topic but just wanted to point it out. (Yahoo News -- Climate Change)
LETTERS: NCT, June 23, 2008 Jun 24, 2008
" Concerned One wrote on Jun 23, 2008 2:48 PM:To To: Sorry, but hydrogen fuel cells have not made a giant leap to the green side. In fact, the fuel takes more energy to make than it produces. That's typical of many wonderful green solutions. Oh, and Honda's new model? Just go ask a dealer when you can order one. In the meantime, I'll drive my fuel efficient VW and wait for the price of hybrids to come down before I buy. Be smart, be open, and don't jump on every bandwagon that comes through... (North County Times)
The Horns of Hattin Jun 23, 2008
Knights of the Crusades Editors of Horizon Magazine, Jay Williams, Margaret B. Freeman. American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc,1962. (Suite101.com)
Author reveals Gandhi’s, Churchill’s human side Jun 22, 2008
There he suffers the racial oppression that launches his lifetime of moral crusades. He, too, struggles to develop a following. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Naman Crowe: How many believe we're in a religious war? Jun 18, 2008
Most of us do not even need computers to recall the Great Crusades of the Middle Ages when the Christians tried to wipe out the Muslims by killing them for Jesus ... One would like to think that the Crusades had put an end to that kind of thinking, but apparently not. (Catoosa County News, GA)
Faris: Medieval Muslim Horsemen Jun 14, 2008
The Muslim Warrior Elite of the Crusades. In the 11th and 12th Centuries AD, Muslim Cavalry was comprised of a limited number of Mamluks - warriors of slave origins - and faris. (Suite101.com)
Knights Templar Jun 14, 2008
Arms and Equipment of the Knights of the Temple. They were given the Al-Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem as their headquarters and from this they took their name - The Order of the Temple. (Suite101.com)
Carter's Second Coming? Jun 13, 2008
These crusades resulted in a system of dependency and family dysfunction based on the warped incentives of government welfare; in rising crime rates and destroyed neighborhoods; in bloated government bureaucracies and higher taxes. Jimmy Carter brought this same attitude to Washington. (Townhall.com)
Obamas Presidency: Victory in the Culture Wars Jun 9, 2008
Students who should have been inspired to passionately defend their country and culture instead were given lectures in English classes on the historical reasons for the attacks (the Crusades, as my colleague at the University of Georgia presented it to his freshman composition classes). Or they were treated to workshops on the peaceful traits of Islam (presented in contrast to the rapacious imperialism of Christianity). (Townhall.com)
9/11 mastermind wants to die Jun 7, 2008
Mohammed, appearing as leader and elder statesman of the group, quickly took center stage at the hearing, railing against President Bush and his "crusades" in Iraq and Afghanistan. He appeared to orchestrate a last-minute strategy that could prove a major disruption to the military commission trials. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Can Hillary Unite the Party? Jun 7, 2008
It is a coalition that seems to assemble only in bad times, goaded by economic depressions, social-justice crusades or ill-advised wars. This year, with more than 80% of the public thinking the country is moving in the wrong direction and even the presumed Republican nominee, John McCain, acknowledging the national jitters, the Democratic army seems poised to come together again. (Time.com)
9/11 defendant says he wants death penalty Jun 6, 2008
Mohammed quickly took center stage, railing against President Bush and his "crusades" in Iraq and Afghanistan while orchestrating a strategy that could prove a major disruption to the military commission trials. After conferring at length with his alleged coconspirators, who were seated along a row of defense tables on the left side of the courtroom, Mohammed disavowed the system created to try him. (Boston Globe)
Morehouse College Just Had Its First White Valedictorian Jun 6, 2008
Black consciousness is still important; however, the problem arises when the movement becomes rigid and institutionalized, losing the potential of what would otherwise be more inclusive and uplifting crusades. The xenophobia expressed by some black commentators on the Web has no place in the postmodern world, especially for blacks who have been particularly excluded. (Slate)
McCain to claim mantle of change Jun 3, 2008
They argue that his work with Democrats on those and other topics, like fighting climate change, as well as his seemingly one-man crusades against issues like wasteful government spending, shows he's not a politics-as-usual candidate. Bush may hinder messageStill, McCain faces hurdles as he tries to market himself as a change-agent given that he's seeking to succeed an unpopular fellow Republican. (MSNBC -- Politics)
The day of judgment May 31, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, May 29, 2008 May 30, 2008 Voice of the people May 24, 2008 Islam a danger to U.S. May 24, 2008 COMPARE: Revisit all the Indiana Jones movies May 23, 2008 Cosmic Quest May 21, 2008 Winds of change May 17, 2008 AP: Pro-McCain Pastor Apologizes to Catholics May 16, 2008 Televangelist apologizes for remarks 'hurtful' to Catholics May 14, 2008 In a Unicorn's Garden Book Review May 14, 2008 Ahmadinejad: Israel to be 'swept away soon'... May 14, 2008 COLUMN: Wright's 'rants' put meat on bones of his video snippets on TV May 10, 2008 Michael Moore, Frank Rich, Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee May 6, 2008 On tolerance May 5, 2008 In Bruges, with chocolate and Colin Farrell Apr 19, 2008 More of this story Apr 19, 2008 45 comments Apr 18, 2008 Carnegie shortlist takes children back in time Apr 18, 2008 Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace Apr 15, 2008 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender--Whatever Apr 15, 2008 Top Video Games For Gamers Of All Ages Apr 14, 2008 Utopia Will Kill Us All Apr 11, 2008 Letters to the editor (April 4) Apr 8, 2008 Joe Orso: How does a community heal when prayer fails? Apr 7, 2008 Charlton Hestondies at 84 Apr 7, 2008 Nanotube secrets of Damascus steel blade Apr 7, 2008 America's massive military prestige Apr 6, 2008 Assassin's Creed AU Preview Apr 6, 2008 Middle man fights for Australia to punch above its weight Apr 5, 2008 America's massive military prestige Apr 3, 2008 Kenya: Nobel Prize Winner Maathai Teargassed Apr 2, 2008 Crusades, Islam Expansion Traced in Lebanon DNA Mar 29, 2008 Crusaders 'left genetic legacy' Mar 28, 2008 Letters to the Editor - 03/27/08 Mar 28, 2008 Inauguration of Emmanuel Presbyterian Reformed Church, Bronx, NY Mar 27, 2008 Writer response to Walls' letter Mar 22, 2008 Letters for Thursday, March 20, 2008 Mar 21, 2008 Microbiological advances point away from Darwin Mar 20, 2008 'Sum up the quagmire' Mar 17, 2008 Does scripture have a place in treating mental illness? Mar 17, 2008 Interfaith group a good fit for writer Mar 15, 2008 Mary Sauceman: A tribute to Rev. Billy Graham Mar 15, 2008 Spitzer victim of Puritanism? Mar 15, 2008 This Is Not Your Father's Bear Market Mar 15, 2008 The English War of Jenkins' Ear Mar 9, 2008 Court Jesters in Western Europe Mar 8, 2008 Writer was wrong on politics, religion Mar 7, 2008 Sewickley native steps up for peace in six-month crusade Mar 4, 2008 Tories make a U-turn on incentives Mar 2, 2008 Letters to the Editor - 2/29/2008 Mar 1, 2008 Religion is on the move Feb 27, 2008 Canadian stylist takes credit for 'horrible" Bardem haircut in Oscar-winning film Feb 27, 2008 Huckabee Begs for 'Nasty' Story... Feb 26, 2008 Approval rating Feb 22, 2008 How the Treaty of Versailles Made Hitler Happy, Kosovo Possible: Interview Feb 20, 2008 Why Kosovo Divides Europe Feb 20, 2008 Europe's can't-miss cathedrals Feb 19, 2008 What’s So Great About Atheism? Feb 16, 2008 U.S. the real terror in Iraq Feb 16, 2008 Not teaching about sex only promotes ignorance Feb 14, 2008 Jewish educators seek information on Christianity Feb 12, 2008 McCain Burys His Progressive Past Feb 12, 2008 Editor's Mailbag (Feb.4) Feb 12, 2008 A place to go for actual facts Feb 12, 2008 More news on video games Feb 12, 2008
It is worth remembering that the impoverished mob that trailed behind the knights of the first crusades started their journey by killing Jews in the thousands in the Upper Rhine area. These days, when Muslims of radical tendency pronounce their formulaic imprecations against "Jews and Cru-saders", they would do well to remember that both Jewry and Islam were victims of the crusades. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A piercing look at the church's crusading ways May 30, 2008
The film traces the rise of anti-Semitism as part of church orthodoxy through the Crusades and the Inquisition - "the sin was no longer in [the Jews'] belief but in their blood" - and tosses out fascinating nuggets such as a Jewish family in Rome that has served as dishmaker to the Pope for centuries. The modern manifestation, and the springboard for Carroll's coolly measured outrage, is the infiltration of evangelical Christianity into the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Boston Globe)
HotJobs Local Search. Is Tri-City's mail-in ballot a scam on voters. (North County Times)
"I learned how to write historical fiction from Sir Walter Scott." He has an unfashionable liking for Scott's medieval Tales of the Crusades, and has written a novel about Richard the Lionheart, A Search for the King (1950). Like Scott's sprawling sagas, Vidal's historical novels give the word "facility" a good name. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
louis b long wrote on May 20, 2008 12:51 PM:" Mr. Caudle,You are so right, I thought I was the only one who realized this.We don`t need any Muslims not even the ones who claim not to be radical, a true muslim will kill them along with us.No mosques or screaming their beliefs to us nad no radical evengelicals basically doing the same, they are all some what touched.We may leave Iraq and watch everone who was friendly with us be slaughtered, but leaving Iraq will not stop the Muslim fanatics from... (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
It was searched for throughout the Crusades and was the basis for the Arthurian legend. Its recovery was said to grant mystical powers, including everlasting life. (USA Today -- Life)
With the Crusades, the Greek teachings were wrested out of Arab hands, and arrived in Europe. And in the sixteenth century the Polish canon Nicolaus Copernicus kickstarted the next revolution. (FirstScience.com)
Merchants and returning veterans of the Crusades introduced windmills to Europe in the 11th century, where first the Dutch and then the English improved the design. By the 18th century, more than 10,000 windmills operated in the Netherlands, where they were used to grind grain, pump water and saw wood. (Salon)
Hagee has cited the Inquisition and the Crusades as evidence of anti-Semitism within the Catholic church and has suggested that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler's views of Jews ... "In the process, I may have contributed to the mistaken impression that the anti-Jewish violence of the Crusades and the Inquisition defines the Catholic Church. It most certainly does not.". (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Hagee has cited the Inquisition and the Crusades as evidence of anti-Semitism within the Catholic Church and has suggested that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler's views of Jews. He has often made references to "the apostate church" and the "great whore," terms that Catholics say are slurs aimed at the Roman Catholic Church. (Boston Globe)
The Middle Ages was the era of the crusades and the age of chivalry. Many medieval gardens were inspired by designs from the East, using ideas gathered from the crusaders. (Suite101.com)
I do believe that Americans have been handed alot of bull regarding the crusades in that Persians were successfully and pretty brutally taking over much of the European continent and their response was the Crusades. Believe me, I know what side I'm on in all of this and I suspect it's the same side you're on. (The Drudge Report)
The woman is "the Great Wh0re," Mr. Hagee explains, and she is drinking "the blood of the Jewish people." That's because the Great Wh0re represents "the Roman Church," which, in his view, has thirsted for Jewish blood throughout history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust. Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
It is with no pleasure that I put in writing what I have long believed: Though many individual liberals have only goodwill toward black Americans, the liberal world since the late 1960s (i. e., after the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s) has done incalculable damage to black America and to race relations in this country. (Townhall.com)
Review the history of the Jihads, crusades, pograms, Inquisitions, the Taiping rebellion. These are just a few examples of the faithful, when failing to alter a population s beliefs, believing it their duty to alter its density. (Longview Daily News, WA)
The relic is a vial of blood reputed to be Christ s blood, carried away from Jerusalem during the crusades. In the film it takes on a symbolic role of redemption, rendition and conversion for the violent gangsters. (Telegraph.co.uk)
RFK at USC: Time magazine named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a "Hero for the Planet." Learn all about his relentless environmental crusades when he speaks at USC on Wednesday, April 23, at 7 p.m.. A sentence of 1,500 hours of community service after a 1983 arrest for heroin possession turned Kennedy onto the cause that has become his life's work. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
with the effect their missions or crusades of the moment have on others lives - unintended consequences etc. One thing on which there is no doubt is the lefts support for so called choice - abortion to normal rational people. (Human Events Online)
The seven-strong shortlist for the medal spans a range of settings from King Arthur's Court to apartheid-era South Africa, taking in the Crusades and a decidedly un-swinging 1960s boarding school along the way. World history and its conflicts provide the backdrop to many of the stories. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
More than tripling of the footprint of that part of Jerusalem that would qualify for special protections as a UNESCO World Heritage Site to include the city's boundaries during the 10th century, or roughly the era of the Crusades. Currently, such status extends to a one-third-square-mile area that includes the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and the walls of Jerusalem's more than 2,000-year-old Old City. (Science Daily)
And, as with most of the Left s cultural crusades, considerable effort is being exerted to capture the hearts and minds of children. News reports suggest there are an increasing number of young children interested in re-assigning their gender. (Human Events Online)
In Assassin's Creed (originally released for the Xbox 360 and PS3, but available for the PC in a few weeks) you get to play a Muslim assassin responsible for the killing of all kinds of people -- including Christian Crusaders -- during the Crusades. If that is not a proper plot and story for adults, what is. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Gray isn't novel when he points out the negative consequences of things like democracy crusades and genetic engineering--that's well-covered ground. Gray adds that the people behind political, scientific and spiritual movements all share a thoughtless devotion to a belief in human progress. (Forbes)
JTB wrote on Apr 4, 2008 7:27 PM:" andyg, please do list out those terrible things done by Christians and let's do some number comparisons with Muslims. Shall we? Let's hear all about the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the KKK and all of those "bad" Christians. Then let's hear about how more people are killed every year by radical Muslims than were killed in all 350 years of the Inquisition. Yeah, yeah, Christians are such Bad people...it's must be true because I read it in history class.... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Phil O'Bates wrote on Apr 7, 2008 3:42 AM:" davidinlse, The 110,000,000 deaths caused by atheistic communists is just within the last century. A rough estimate on deaths caused by the Spainish Inquisition is about 50,000. The estimate of deaths caused by all of the Crusades on both sides is about 1.5 million. The witch trials had death tolls of no more then 100,000. The Wars of Religion had a death toll of about 5 million. So the deaths tolls associated with Christianity is roughly 6.7 million.... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
" Heston wrote several books: "The Actor's Life: Journals 1956-1976," published in 1978; "Beijing Diary: 1990," concerning his direction of the play "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" in Chinese; "In the Arena: An Autobiography," 1995; and "Charlton Heston's Hollywood: 50 Years of American Filmmaking," 1998. Besides Fraser, the Hestons had a daughter, Holly Ann, born Aug. 2, 1961. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1994 at a party with Hollywood and political friends. They... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Sir Walter Scott's fictional tale of the Crusades described the Islamic army's swords as being "of a dull blue colour, marked with ten millions of meandering lines.". "To get the pattern, they made grooves into the blade and forged it to remove the steps. This was repeated many times," said Prof Paufler. (Yahoo News -- Nanotechnology)
And if there are, as I now calculate, 22 times as many Western troops in the Muslim world as there were at the time of the 11th and 12th century Crusades, we must ask what we are doing. Are we there for oil. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
The preview code we played looked pretty close to completion, with graphics so crisp they could slice bread, sound that makes you feel like you're back in the time of the Crusades - complete with yelling merchants, begging beggars and religious nut jobs being, you know, religious and nut jobby. Unfortunately a couple of audio hangovers remain, that is - the voice acting of Altair and the creepy scientist who likes to watch him sleep. (IGN PC Games)
Not to mention our friends in Europe and elsewhere," he said. The intensive diplomatic strategy began in Bucharest when Rudd stitched up bilateral meetings with half-a-dozen European leaders. France's Nicolas Sarkozy pledged his support. In Brussels on Wednesday, Rudd was again embracing multilateralism by meeting European Union and European Commission officials. He was in the Belgian capital ostensibly to try to breathe life into the interminable Doha global free trade adventure. His real modus... (Sydney Morning Herald)
And if there are, as I now calculate, 22 times as many Western troops in the Muslim world as there were at the time of the 11th and 12th century Crusades, we must ask what we are doing. Are we there for oil. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
Unable to frustrate her efforts, Maathai's detractors pushed for the de-registration of the Green Belt Movement, the NGO she founded in the 1970s and was using in her crusades. But it is as if the age-old truism -prophets are never recognised at home - was crafted with Maathai in mind. (allAfrica.com)
A new study has found genetic traces of both the arrival of the Crusades and of the expansion of Islam in Lebanon. The findings not only confirm well-documented history but also present a rare genetic trail showing the movement of two major religions into , scientists say. (National Geographic)
The team says it found a particular DNA signature which recently appeared in Lebanon and is probably linked to the crusades. The finding comes from the Genographic Project, a major effort to track human migrations through DNA.. (BBC News -- Science)
" Oh Please! wrote on Mar 27, 2008 1:42 PM:Karl[-] wrote on Mar 27, 2008 1:11 PM: LOL. Please Karl. The political parties have not even attended their conventions. Polls have not mattered and will not matter until we actually vote. But, thanks for the info. Ms M wrote on Mar 27, 2008 1:45 PM:Karl [-] wrote on Mar 27, 2008 1:11 PM: Who did the poll? I think polls have run out. Most primary polls were wrong. Yesterday, Fox had McCain ahead and NBC had Obama ahead. It depends on who's conducting... (North County Times)
Revivals, Prayer Crusades, Marriage(Couples* and Singles) Seminar, *Leadership Training Seminar, Worship in Songs, Picnics, Bible Quizzes, Friday Night Prayer Meetings, Healing and Deliverance Sessions, Group Anniversaries, Childr*en's Day Programs, *Youth Day, and many more. CURRENT LEADERSHIP OF THE CHURCH:* * SESSION. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
This same type of hatred was the basis for 300 years of Christian Crusades of killing the infidels of Islam and is now behind the currents efforts of Islam to kill the infidel Christians. Ralph MatthewsGalt. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Only during the Crusades was war considered holy ... " This is a long and understandable tradition in the Black community, but still not acceptable in "polite" society. In polite society, we must pretend that America is nothing but wonderful. Obama's candidacy must exits within those constraints, and he could be ruined by the appearance of stepping outside the great American mythology. Ron wrote on Mar 20, 2008 9:05 AM:I understand the feelings of The Rev. Timothy Murphy of Pilgrim United Church... (North County Times)
The CRUSADES, THE SPANISH INQUISITION, WITCH BURNINGS, WARS,RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, and innumerable forms and implementation of HATE. How Sad when the message of God is love. " Challenger wrote on Mar 18, 2008 3:21 PM:" Wow what staggering arguments. (Longview Daily News, WA)
I guess President Bush missed the history lessons about the crusades a few centuries ago. Bill WalkerFresno. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog. Welcome to Sydney Morning Herald Online. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The Crusades around the 12th century, the destruction of the Native Americans and their spiritualities in the 1700s and 1800s by European settlers, and the various present-day conflicts among Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups in the Middle East are but a handful of examples. Almost all religious conflict stems from hatred towards another religion, and this hatred comes from an inherent conviction that there is one religion yours that is the right religion, and every other way of believing is... (Concord Journal, MA)
These were filmed in the early days of his many crusades. As I listened and watched, I was fascinated by the forcefulness of his delivery, his intense look of concentration with the piercing eyes of a sincere and dedicated man. (WWalker County Messenger, GA)
The Muslims get it they know this is the next great Holy War or the Crusades redux. They are willing to lay their lives on the line, are we. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
As New York's attorney general, Spitzer conducted crusades against what he thought of as Wall Street's shady practices and overly generous compensation packages. Now there is no doubt that some of Wall Street's practices can legitimately be called shady, but the idea that a state attorney general can wield the power of the state on what he thinks is an "overly generous" compensation package is a disgraceful assault to the principles of free markets and a disgusting abuse of government power. (Human Events Online)
There are those wars which are deemed just (such as the war to defeat Hitler) and there are those which are by some deemed to be unjust (such as some of the wars of the Crusades). One of the more unusual instigators for a major war, however, was the strange case in the 1730 s of an Englishman s severed ear. (Suite101.com)
In addition to this traditional jester, which flourished during the Middle Ages (when, one would suppose, people were in need of cheering up more than ever, due to the crusades and the black death and all), they are also found, though in slightly different forms, in such diverse places as the Middle East and, earlier, in Rome during the time of Pliny the Elder (first century A.D.). What Were Jesters he obvious purposes of jesters (to cheer people up), it might be interesting to note that they... (Suite101.com)
Mr. Zuchowski asserts that "the Crusades, the Inquisition, the witch hunts and the deportations of religious minorities were all biblically based" without backing his claim or investigating history. The Crusades were more political than religious, though sponsored by "the church," and the Inquisition was almost thoroughly political. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Cyprus was a stronghold of the Knights Templar during the Crusades and was used as a staging area from which soldiers and supplies were sent to Palestine. "I knew the Cypriot path was a path taken from the Third Crusades after Richard the Lionhearted captured Limassol. Cyprus had just recently removed barriers that allowed people to cross from the north to the southern part.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Mr. Manning said that, while he is a believer in issues campaigns that can get the public to buy in to a "bigger and different alternative," he appreciates that such crusades are more risky in a minority Parliament. "What is constraining the federal fellows, they would say, is the minority government situation.... They say, 'We have to target the median voter, and they're not quite as keen on some of these proposals.' It's the job of the whole conservative movement to move the median voter on to... (National Post)
Remember the crusades and the nazis. Religion means fantastic gold filled churches. (North County Times)
wrote on Feb 26, 2008 3:12 PM:" There's been a huge blow up on this blog recently about what constitutes religious intolerance; I was reminded that the Jesus of the gospels is surely 'intolerant' of other beliefs not in agreement with his. That was indeed an apt point -- and it leads into the 'Bugs' critique below. As long as religious believers (in ANY religion -- that's an important emphasis) are adamant that there is only ONE religious truth and it is the one they believe in, then not only... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
LeBlanc, who has been kept busy with the New Brunswick hair salon he opened a year ago, created the hairstyle for Bardem's character in the blood-soaked "No Country For Old Men," drawing on the mop tops of the British warriors in the medieval Crusades as well as the haircuts of the 1960s for inspiration. Spanish actor Bardem took home the best supporting actor Oscar Sunday night for his portayal of icy killer Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' "No Country For Old Men," which won three other... (International Herald Tribune)
America's new "golden calf" is money and socialistic crusades. And America will go down with it, just like Rome. (The Drudge Report)
Republicans have been the greatest recruitment tool for Islamic terrorists since the crusades. Since Republicans have been al-Sadrs greatest ally and BFF (best friend forever), they may as well claim the credit, too. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The American adviser was actually an expert on the Crusades which means his expertise on the Middle East ended somewhere around the year 1400, so you have to ask yourself what kind of information were they using to draw these boundary lines. They wanted to create states very much in their own image. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
But the issue is most volatile in in Europe, where the collapse of Yugoslavia reignited conflicts that date from the Crusades and the Ottoman advance into Europe conflicts in which European leaders appeared incapable of intervening to stop repeated crimes against humanity. Last November, I went to Kosovo to visit Ramadan Ilazi, who was 14 when I'd met him during the war in a refugee camp in Macedonia. (Time.com)
This ended in France in the second half of the 13th century, when King Louis IX levied taxes on cities and dioceses to wage the Crusades. Must-see cathedralsStill, after hundreds of years of fires, wartime bombings and general disrepair, cathedrals continue to provide visitors with insight into the spiritual lives, and history, of Europeans. (MSNBC -- Travel)
The bill of particulars includes the medieval crusades, the Inquisition, the Thirty Years War, resistance to scientific progress, anti-Semitism, forced conversions, and, well, much more. Some atheists also contrive to blame Christianity for the mass murders of the decidedly un-Christian Hitler and Stalin. (The American Conservative)
lanny wrote on Feb 15, 2008 2:24 PM:" Give it a rest "THE TRUTH". I hate the "historically speaking" argument. Who cares what we did historically? What are Christians doing NOW and for the last 100 or more years? By your line of reasoning America is still a slave country because we "once had slaves". If it makes you feel better, sorry about The Crusades in the 14th century and the Spanish Inquisition in the 16th century, and sorry about the Witch Trials in the 18th century. Anything else I can... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
It seems to me, however, that he is forgetting about this event known as the Crusades. Can a man who calls himself Christian just ignore the history of his own faith. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
The world's largest faith is often mentioned in Jewish schools largely in negative contexts - the Crusades and the Holocaust. But the advocates of the New Directions program are arguing that Jewish teachers should be able to answer questions about Christianity accurately and respectfully both for moral reasons - because it's the right thing to do - and practical ones - because many children in Jewish schools have Christian relatives, and most live in predominantly Christian communities. (Boston Globe)
McCain ran for his Senate seat as Barry Goldwater's ideological heir, and, with the exception of a couple maverick episodes - his crusades against Big Tobacco and for campaign finance reform - he fulfilled that pledge. But something dramatic changed during, and after, his 2000 presidential campaign. (CBS News)
AMAZED wrote on Feb 6, 2008 12:25 PM:" Ba*ef*ot, I won't even waste my time addressing your asinine comments about Jews killing those of other religions. What I will suggest is you read up on xian history, the Crusades, Inquizitions, etc. " ... Barefoot wrote on Feb 6, 2008 3:13 PM:" Ama*ed, I have never mentioned Jews killing anyone. You get caught up in your own rhetoric. I specifically mentioned SEVERAL times Christians being responsible for the Holocaust. I specifically mentioned the... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Willpower wrote on Feb 5, 2008 6:26 PM:" The "Black Death" of the "little Ice Age" can certainly be rationalized as God's wrath against a self-righteous "Church" that instituted Crusades against Middle Easterners. Or is it the karmic result of feudal serfdom? What "bill" hates to admit is that it followed a period of warmer than average temperatures in Greenland which probably resulted in a slowing or stopping of the North Atlantic thermo-haline circulation and its accompanying warm water... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
After an impressive holiday showing for Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft has confirmed a version of the Crusades-era adventure will appear on the Nintendo DS. ... The game will be set in a 3D world in which players move through four cities in the Middle East during the Crusades. (USA Today -- Tech)
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