[Meta] [EVA] Evangelion Theories and thoughts (way off topic)

[Rick J Federle, Jr]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 08:44:30 +1000 Ayanami^Rei <ayanami at merlin.net.au>
writes:
>At 02:31 PM 11/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>	Ha!  The central teaching of Islam is convert or die.  If you
>>disagree, look up the early history of Isalm.  The Crusaders weren't
>>doing most of the killing.
>
>Pity, then, that the majority of the victims of the dickheads who 
>joined
>the early Crusades were Christians living in the area themselves.  Its 
>what
>you get when an immoral religious nut rounds up an army of uneducated
>peasants and runs rampant into the "holy lands" without any thought as 
>to
>whether the people there were Christian or not.
>
>They, of course, rapidly fell prey to Saladin and his Saracens.  So 
>when
>news that those who had gone over to "liberate" the holy lands from 
>the
>Muslims had been defeated, then things started to get serious.  
>Course, the
>Saracens continued to have the upper hand until Richard appeared on 
>the scene.
>
>Ayanami^Rei
>
>
	You haven't read your history.  The crusades were started by the
Byzantine Empire.  And no one, certainly not the European Church fathers
were expecting the response they got.

	All right, enough.