re: #643 SanFranciscoZionist

Can I have a serious link on this business about the Crusades? I’ve heard that seven or eight times on LGF, and, honestly, it’s not supported by anything I know. I’d like to see a source before I call major BS.

Secondly, and I’m about to be a little dicey here, how do we feel about people who call themselves Stalinists? Do we remember what was done in Stalin’s name? We sure do. Christianity carries its historical baggage with it like any other faith or movement, and saying that the true faith does not condone such may be true, but it does not wipe out the past.

Those brave Crusaders saving Europe from Islam slaughtered the Jewish community of Jerusalem, after murdering and extorting funds from Jewish communities across Europe. Tell me, who should I have been rooting for in 1066?

Pope Urban II made it pretty clear that he could not stand the idea of infidels holding the holy land.

Here is his speech if you are interested.

fordham.edu

There was also the issue of second sons wanting kingdoms of their own…