8 hours ago by Mark

I’m a big fan of cartoons. There is a lot of truth behind humor sometimes. Tagged: America, Christian, crusades, humor, religion, wordpress

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1 day ago by theophilogue

The following is a book review of the following book: Thomas F. Madden, The New Conscise History of the Crusades (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), 280 pgs. Madden’s Concerns and Emphases Madden is driven by the concern that popular histories retell myths about the Crusades long dispelled by h ...

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2 days ago

The Archbishop of Wales is helping a Pembrokeshire church where medieval figure Gerald of Wales was the first rector celebrate its 800th anniversary. Dr Barry Morgan will preach at St Mary’s Church in Tenby. Gerald of Wales was appointed rector of Tenby in 1210, following his passionate but failed c ...

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3 days ago by nurzangi

M. Shahid Alam An Arab-American of Lebanese descent, fluent in Arabic, Anthony Shadid was one of a handful of unembedded Western journalists reporting from Iraq during the US invasion in 2003. At the time, he was The Washington Post’s correspondent for Islamic Affairs in the Middle East. His dispatc ...

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5 days ago by nishant

assassin noun a murderer of an important person in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons. • ( Assassin) historical a member of the Nizari branch of Ismaili Muslims at the time of the Crusades, when the newly established sect ruled part of northern Persia (1094–1256). They were renowne ...

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5 days ago by Selwyn Duke

Were the Crusades really expansionist ventures by an imperialist Europe? Or were they something else entirely? By Selwyn Duke The year is 732 A.D., and Europe is under assault. Islam, born a mere 110 years earlier, is already in its adolescence, and the Muslim Moors are on the march. Growing in leap ...

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5 days ago by toma

Apparently, Dr. Olasky was earlier taken aback by the criticism of Brit Hume ( “Bold journalist Brit Hume” — HA) for telling Tiger Woods to drop Buddhism and become Christian. It offered a better shot at redemption, BRIT! said. “Maybe so, one Buddhist blogger replied, but Buddhism is a religion of p ...

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5 days ago by pollution

nickolassc asked: For those seeking to justify this kind of all-encompassing government control, global warming is the best candidate to come along since the collapse of Marxism. Like Marxism, environmentalism steals the “scientific” aura of an established field–but in this case it has invaded the “ ...

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5 days ago by Philip Edwards

Drones carry war into many villiages. Talibans’ toy-tin soldiers, a war machine once created to fight Russia and its Communist politics in the early years (the 80’s) is now an army of survivors and the army of death. Toy soldiers and Communism and proxy wars against damning influences in any country ...

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6 days ago by Jonathan Jarrett

Once again there is no time for substance, though there will be something with a bit more body to it shortly. So, in short order: An article of Pierre Toubert’s in the Bonnassie Festschrift has in it the interesting point that one of the things a scholarly model achieves (he is talking about incaste ...

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