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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "William Cloud Hicklin"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:op.tqvosfwerwd1fl@emachine...   
      
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   >> And yet, I wish that a lot of massacres (and the sack of fellow-Christian   
   >> Constantinople) had not been committed specifically in the name of the   
   >> loving Christian God.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Except that last wasn't.  That meanest, most venal development of the   
   > Crusades was never justified as some sort of "God commands us to kill the   
   > schismatics:" it was 'justified' by rather transparent claims of Byzantine   
   > treachery (and in fact motivated, of course, by simple greed and the   
   > scheming of Dandolo).   
      
   Even so, the crusaders had sworn to fight for Christianity, not to attack   
   and loot Christian cities. You can't just claim that it "wasn't a crusade",   
   when that was exactly what it was, no matter how much it fell off the tracks   
   after the departure from Venice.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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