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Bloody Religious Knight Orders
Whether religious or not as boys you would have heard of the Knights of Old in the days of chivalry and damsels in distress. With the likes of Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the rest of the knights of King Arthur and his Round Table. They may be mythical to you now, however, the historical religious monk knights of old were not as honourable as we were made to believe. The Crusaders were more mercenary, fighting for their God as well as for money and landed possessions, and there was no nicety about how they went about it either. They were mostly barbaric, killing for the sake of killing their sins were forgiven, so it did not matter who they killed or how. Yet, these were the warriors that the Church hired to do their bidding in the Holy Land. A most bloody and barbaric history of warfare the world has ever seen. Where lives of thousands of P.O.W hung in the balance, or if a ransom was paid for their release. P.O.W. came from all walks of life, royalty, nobility, and soldiers of fortune, however, the one thing they all had in common was religion. Richard le Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lion Heart) in 1191CE, massacred in an afternoon at Ayyadieh over 3,000 Muslim Saracen prisoners along with their wives and children. All because the Muslim great leader An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub aka Salah ad-Din or Saladin was late with paying the ransom. [“Richard The Lionheart Massacres The Saracens, 1191,” EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)]
Yet, books films, have been made of Richard I (1189-1199) making out that he was the pinnacle of chivalry, and a great king, which he was neither of them.
(It was a good day when he died for the Englisce, whom he bled with taxes for his crusades. However, his brother John Lackland (reigned 1199-1216) who took the mantle of kingship was no better as king to his Germanic people—the Englisce, whom he sold to Rome. John fearing that he would be threatened with papal support for a French invasion of England, in 1213 King John made peace with representatives of Pope Innocent III (1161–1216). At a meeting outside Dover, John placed England and Ireland under the lordship of Rome. From this time onwards, the Pope would be England’s feudal overlord, receiving an annual tribute of 1000 marks (£666). So Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) became the king of England and Ireland all for the devil’s marks £666.)
Good Knight or Bloody Knight
During and after the First Crusade there arose a new type of knight not chivalrous, greedy for wealth certainly, but most were not the sons of nobility, which the Englisce myth called Sir Knights. These knights that emerged were Warrior Monks, religious fanatics belonging to various religious Church Orders all over Europe. Sworn to protect the very people that they extorted from for safe passage, the Christians on their Pilgrimages.
With little regard for life or chivalry such as the Order of Knights Hospitaller (later St. John) (officially remains a religious order albeit split, with a Catholic and Protestant, both of whom mutually recognise one another). The Order of the Holy Sepulchre which was reorganised in 1496 by the Borgia Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503). Since 1931 it is known as the Equestrian (Knights) Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. The Knights Templar which was made up of zealot Crusaders Knights in the first quarter of the 1100s, but later renamed the Order of Christ.
The Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Order, and Order of Brothers of the Sword and many more military Holy Orders.
Modern American White Knights
Then in 19th and 20th-century American Hate Groups trying to mimic medieval Europe, with their religious bigotry and anti-Semitic and racist towards African Americans. Groups such as the Protestant Militant Racist Orders known as the White Knights aka the Ku Klux Klan whose symbol was the Blood Drop Cross. https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/blood-drop-cross
An order who believed that they brought Anglo-Saxon values, yet probably only 5% or less could claim Anglo-Saxon heritage owing to their ignorance of history and the original meaning of Angli-Saxones or what is meant by being a Caucasian or of the Caucasoid race.
Another White Religious Group. using the Phineas Priesthood “P” cross symbol https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/phineas-priesthood has come to be used by the adherents of the hard-core White Supremacist sect Christian Identity.* Which are a Christian racist and Anti-Semitic hate group fighting for what they believe is White Anglo-Saxon Christian beliefs? Like the KKK this group is ignorant of history!
*Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a white supremacist and antisemitic theology that claims that White people are the true descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel! [List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups] How ignorant are the Christian Identity folk? They are antisemitic but believe they are the Lost Tribes of Israel!
How say you?
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Cofion
Jero Jones
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