Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site we53.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!bmt From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas ) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: War and Death Message-ID: <249@we53.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 12:49:25 EDT Article-I.D.: we53.249 Posted: Wed Oct 17 12:49:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 14:22:45 EDT References: <856@ihuxp.UUCP> <272@umcp-cs.UUCP> <865@ihuxp.UUCP><190@calmasd.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Technologies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 11 >What about the Crusades? This brings up a popular misconception about Christianity. The abomination that was the Roman Catholic Church at the time of the Crusades and into the Middle Ages was only a popular counterfeit of the church that was founded by Jesus and his followers. Nearly all churches from that day to this have degenerated into greater or lesser versions of something like this, only to be reformed from within, which reform movement later crystallizes into something which again needs reforming. Unfortunately, the old, hardened entity still remains, and these things go on.