What comic book did Miller turn to to get his history of the Templars? Or what sensationalized TV hack-job?
The history of the Templars is very complicated (due to continually reconstructed history) but in general this much is true: 1. They formed a 12C religious/military order to protect Christians going to the Holy Land. 2. They fought the Muslims and were defeated by the Mongols. 3. They became the international bankers of the middle ages and acquired enormous wealth and power, essentially giving them unprecedented freedom from both kings and popes. 4 Ultimately, they were in trouble with the king of France and with other kings who thought they had become too powerful , rich, and independent and finally the pope abandoned them to the Inquisition because he wanted to keep leverage over the kings and caved in on their trumped up charges of heresy against the Templars, obtained through unspeakable torture. 5. The Templars were eventually wiped out by mid 14C. All sorts of later connections were invented to honor or disgrace the Templars according to various self-interests (freemasonry exaggerators) and power struggles between 17-18C loyalists, royalists, and revolutionaries, but the facts -- as known -- are that the Templars were not bad guys, certainly not the terrorists Miller refers to. Actually, they were the precursors of the revolutionaries that transformed Europe and America. I urge Miller to read history and be informed or to justify his ridiculous comment, if he can. ________________________________ From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:49:54 AM Subject: Re: inevitable and resolved The Knights Templars really were *bad* guys -- terrorists, actually, with no apparent fear of death, much like their sometime opponents, the Assassins, the 12th C. equivalent of the Taliban. When King Henry had them all outlawed, rounded up, and tortured to death -- you can well believe in what awe they were then held. >"Miller's medieval mode of attack is to toss a wobbly, floating spear that falls back end first far short of the brightly spangled lord/knight Templar, who towering atop his snorting warrior horse, calmly awaits the stumbling advance of the unwashed and starved conscripts who, blinded by fear, will soon lie together in mushed and trampled gore. In other words, Miller's attack is unequal to the force he opposes, and unworthy as well. ____________________________________________________________ Click now to find great remedies for hangovers! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxWYu4LJxnjQM5R1Gniy9KVqd JTEKbRIsGfVuS2x53GFqRq8isDzgM/
