The Crusades: Helluva bad, or helluva worth it?

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:54 am

Perhaps you should thank Mohammed.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:00 pm

Hodgson wrote:I'm willing to believe that Palin, the eminent ex-comedian, may have produced a masterpiece. And I'm always interested in examining sources. But perhaps--although God knows it's a long shot--you also might be interested in examining one. Even the words of an actual historian:

Interestingly enough, the first line in your source's "About Us" statement is:

The mission of CRISIS Magazine is to interpret and shape the direction of contemporary culture from a standpoint of Catholic tradition.

Hmmm . . . no possibility of bias from that publication.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:27 pm

This is only going to lead to a flame war.
I'm not going to make any apology for Islamic or Christian loonies, both sides did bad things, and continue to do them.
I'm not going to make any apology for myself, I stated the facts as I know them, and listened to the other views.
This has nothing to do with Lovecraft, so somebody please lock this thread-I started it for other purposes, and it has wandered into another relm.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:54 pm

can we please move forward without the artificial constraints of thread-locking? i know we can all get along here. this is just a classic example of why religion and politics are shunned topics in polite company... let's just regain some perspective and maybe steer this thread back in the right direction.

the temple needs all the posts it can get!

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:24 pm

I'm not locking anything. I'll split the Crusade debate into a new thread, though.