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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by templar knight
I'm still in salary negotiations with the Illuminatti.
So the Templar Knights are going to have to wait.
Interesting though.
edit on 20-2-2012 by beezzer because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by getreadyalready
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by templar knight
I'm still in salary negotiations with the Illuminatti.
So the Templar Knights are going to have to wait.
Interesting though.
edit on 20-2-2012 by beezzer because: (no reason given)
No, no, no. You have it all wrong! Salary is not important in the Illuminatti. You have to negotiate for best seating at the sacrifices, first dibs on the altar blood, etc. The salary is irrelavant, the money comes from every angle, you won't know what to do with it all. Negotiate like a pro! The fringe benefits far outweigh the salary!
Forgive me if I don't hold my breath. There are dozens if not hundreds of groups today calling themselves Knights Templar. I have yet to see any that actually hold historical ties to the original group. The closest is probably the batch that Sinclair is involved with, and only then because he owns Rosslyn Chapel. And even that group is pretty sketchy.
Originally posted by Cosmic4life
Actually they ARE the Knights Templar and as such will soon be recognized by the Vatican.
Originally posted by JoshNorton
Whatever group Anders Breivik claimed to be a member of
Originally posted by Cosmic4life
Actually they ARE the Knights Templar and as such will soon be recognized by the Vatican.
Originally posted by Cosmic4life
It has been noted that Pope Clement V actually pardoned the Knights Templar from alleged heresies in the (Processa contra Templarios).
Originally posted by Cosmic4life
What remains is for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to annul the Papal Bulls (Vox in Excelso) (Pastoralis Praeeminentiae) and (Ad providam) to fully restore the Orders Titles, Honors, Lands and properties.
This will require the Knights Hospitallers/Knights of Malta to handover all Templar assets handed to them by the Vatican.
Of course, actually READING the article you linked to tells us
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
Now im not saying all the knights were homosexuals, but when you get a group of angry men together away from women for a long time, they may need to act out those frustrations. im sure sodomy took on a different meaning back in those days, but if its part of the initiation process then count me out. Nothing against homosexuals, just not my bag.
Link.
But in any examination of Inquisition testimony, it is impossible to lay aside the effect that torture must have had on the answers given. Work on the answers of all the Templars in all the trials for which we have extant manuscripts has shown that there is a very close correlation between the use of torture, which appears to have been widely used in France and Italy) and confessions of guilt.
In conclusion, theologians in the period from the sixth to the fourteenth century frequently referred to sodomy as either the most serious sexual sin or one of the gravest such sins. There is no doubt, however, that they differed in their definition of the act. It could refer to any illicit sexual coupling between men, women, or a man and a woman.
While we can never know the truth about the sexual behavior of the Templars, one must acknowledge that in the order homosexual relations were always regarded as a serious sin to be severely punished. Its frequency was probably on a par with that of any other religious order, possibly even less. Scholars who assert confidently that the Templar order was pervaded by practicing homosexuals have no real evidence on which to base such claims.