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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (580580)	8/11/2010 11:25:20 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577920

You can't simply jump over centuries of Muslim abuses and Muslim anti Christian Crusades and try to interpret the Christian Crusades in a vacuum. Your comments indicate that you either lack a knowledge of history or a sense of ethics and morality. Then again, you might just be an anti Christian bigot. Yes, I can. Neither side was made up of saints.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (580580)	8/15/2010 8:27:12 PM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 1577920

>> The Christian Crusades were a response to multiple Moslem Crusades over several centuries against Christian lands and people in Egypt, North Africa, Chaldea, Spain, France, Byzantium, Christian Anatolia, and Christian Palestine. << There was nothing "Christian" about the Crusades! The Crusades were preached by apostate Popes, who had sundered the Roman church from the entire rest of Orthodox Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054. The Roman Papacy was excommunicated and anathematized in 1054, and one will notice that after 40 years of squandered opportunity to repent and return to the bosom of the Church, Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade in 1095. The Crusades were not carried out by true Christians at all, but by apostate "Roman Catholics" who for nearly the last thousand years are no longer counted as part of Christ's One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. In fact, the Papal crusaders persecuted the true Christians. Certainly a man as knowledgeable and erudite as yourself, is aware of the sack of Constantinople of 1204? True Christians would not slaughter their own brethren! Only heretics and apostates would engage in such depravity. Do you think the Latins and the Orthodox have been apart for nearly a thousand years over just spilled milk? Please read: Fourth Crusade en.wikipedia.org The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christian (Eastern Orthodox) city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire). This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. Siege of Constantinople (1204) en.wikipedia.org Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, Pope John Paul II twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he wrote to Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens, saying, "It is tragic that the assailants, who set out to secure free access for Christians to the Holy Land, turned against their brothers in the faith. The fact that they were Latin Christians fills Catholics with deep regret."[11]