re "kill 'em all, let god sort it out"
Actually, that quote is a paraphrase of an order by a Dominican Inquisitor, the Bishop of Citeaux, during the Albigensian Crusade of 1213. Pope Innocent III had ordered the elimination of the Cathars (an early Christian sect in what is now southern France) for the crime of heresy.
On prior crusades to the holy land, it was easy to tell who to kill, what with differences in skin color and all, but these were fellow white Europeans. When an officer, unsure of how to proceed, asked how to tell the difference between the Cathars and the "true" christians, the bishop's reply was: "Kill them all. God will recognise his own."
Now, almost 800 years later, war-mongering jerks use an order from one of the worst mass murderers of all time as a "motto."
They're utterly shameless! |
