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Old 03-24-06, 08:58 AM   #7
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I do not want to whitewash chruch history - it has had it'S black spots for sure. But the correction of the crusades' image as being war of attacks against a peaceloving victim must be corrected - they were a defense, logical reaction to having been attacked oneself. While it is true that later political and economical motives in this or that faction inside the crusader'S arrmies took over, I have little doubt that a mjaoirty of knights and sevants took on these expeditions with religious moto9ves to defend the heritage of Christinanity after it had been attacked by and fell to Islam. as a historical fact in remains true that Islam attacked Christianity, and repeatedly, in the first. Not the other way around.

I wonder if this conference in the Vatican could be understood as a first signal that they are about to correct the foolish policies towards Islam that had been enforced especially by John Paul II, but had been initiated by the second Vatican council in the early sixties.
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