Knights Templar - Page 1/3

Subject: Knights Templar
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sparky04 6.02.19 - 12:37pm
Anyone's views on them. Did they do a lot of good for fellow christians, or did they create a legacy of bad, and hatred ?.There are the same organisations across all faiths the warriors of belief.Who is wrong, who is right or is it just all wrong? . Can we not all get along brother to brother, and sister to sister.Or will there always be that unfortunate divide. * +

mikeymk 6.02.19 - 12:39pm
Is this a religion thing? I don't do religion. * +

sparky04 6.02.19 - 12:47pm
Depends on how you look at it. More belief than anything else. But respect that you do not do religion for one reason or another. Religion can give people hope, it can let people down, and can cause wars so totally get that you do not do it. * +

3mel 6.02.19 - 12:51pm
they became the world's richest organisation during their time through merchant trade routes which prompted them being turned over by the Catholic Church. they're supposed to have had the world's largest fleet of ships and quite a few monopolies.

anywhere in London where a place or building is called temple was established by them, maybe further afield too.

I don't know whether they were smeared by the church or genuine heretics, both opinions are held about them depending on who you read. they did however manage to exist militarily in Jerusalem and rule it for 100 years being formed out of members of the first crusade. it was only subsequent crusades that grew to be despised by the locals I've read. * +

sparky04 6.02.19 - 01:20pm
Bravo and well read Mel. It was the locals that despised it . Which leads to my original question wrong, or right. * +

3mel 6.02.19 - 01:34pm
I'd always assumed that to some degree relations were pretty good between the first crusade and the locals, they would have been outnumbered several hundred to 1 over there even with a castle. * +

sparky04 6.02.19 - 01:44pm
They certainly would have been. The castle, and temples were bricks, and mortar. Both built on strong foundations. But where the bricks, and mortar failed , faith, and belief, and god was the strongest foundation that they could have ever had. That is what kept them strong until the end. Well in that chapter of history any way. * +

bozzalad 6.02.19 - 01:57pm

@ sparky04 - 6.02.19 - 12:37pm
Anyone's views on them. Did they do a lot of good for fellow christians, or did they create a legacy of bad, and hatred ?.There are the same organisations across all faiths the warriors of belief.Who is wrong, who is right or is it just all wrong? . Can we not all get along brother to brother, and sister to sister.Or will there always be that unfortunate divide.