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From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas )
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Subject: Re: War and Death
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 12:49:25 EDT
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>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.