Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   For John Doe – A History Refresher Date:   3/6/2020 8:21:45 PM

Sir, you are correct, we Christians have a violent history. EXACTLY as do the Muslims, we extrapolated from the Bible that we had duty and permission from God to punish the Muslims… hence, the Crusades. At that time the keeper of the Bible was the Catholic Church. Few others could read… not even kings! The position of Pope could be bought by a rich family (e.g. the Medici). There were three of those violent incursions.

Later a Pope decided that the very professional and organized purveyors of the crusade expeditions, Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller were to be hunted to ground and dispensed with (read the history of the Masonic Lodge).

What about the Inquisitions? This pogrom easily qualifies as stomach churning violence.

With the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the subsequent publication (resurrection) of the Bible, the masses could decide for themselves what Christ believed and promoted. At that point, Christians began to evolve. The evolution of Christian thought and Masonic doctrine brought about the turning of (most) western cultures toward empathy.

Such was episodic (e.g. both sides in WW1 featured belt buckles which proclaimed “God is my Right”).

This empathy towards the humanity of one’s enemy(ies) culminated in the Geneva Conventions.

 Islam has not progressed to the point of empathy. Therein lies the contention.

 (I admit, this has been a very simplistic discourse… but then, I am far from the intellectual caliber of Will and Ariel Durant.)

-          LMF Curmudgeon