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Knights Templars And The French Church
In France, as in most countries, the history of the Church is intertwined(to say the least)with the history of the State
. For the obvious reason. Both are in the control business . Both want to tell their lost little lambies where/how to live, and most importantly , whats kosher and whats not.The state does it with taxes, subsidies, rules and regulations. The Church with religious mumbo jumbo. But, as often happens with two power structures in competition, they pump up da volume as King Henry the Eighth did when he decided the best way to get rid of his problems with his Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, was to get rid of him. Devishly simple, wot?
Party Time!
Frances Pope Innocent 111( perhaps taking a cue from Mohammed, on whose sword was supposedly written My message is peace) had an equally simple and effective solution to his problem with the Cathares.(pro cat-rs) A religious sect who were stealing followers by the carload from the Roman Catholic side o the street. Pope Innocent invited all the Cathares to the walled city of Carcassonne for a bar-b-que. Theirs. When the Head Chef pointed out that women and children were included his Holiness replied :Kill them all. God will know the Holy ones.
This black historical reality has added a new, equally black humor connotation to the name Cathares. It now(also) means meat burned to a crisp. As in : Do ya want if rare, well done, orCathares.?
(The inummerable French scholars in my audience might enjoy l pope Cathare 1198-1216 by Michel Roquebert. (Editions Privat, 14 rue des arts,Toulouse.)
Leveraged Buyoutsand more
Religion hates competition. Just like that other power structure The Multi-National Corporation. But where the Multi-Nationals solution would be to buy out your suppliers, undercut your prices,then acquire you for pennies on the dollar,Religion goes right for the jugular. Literally. If not a garden variety massacre like Carcasonne, then Holy wars. Religion with an edge. A way sharp edge.
The French Churchs contribution to these missions of mercy were the Knights Templars. Who, incidently were, among other things, the first Multi-National.
Saving the Savages
Their main mission as a Christian Military Organization, was to capture Jerusalem in particular, and the Holy Land in general.
Meaning that they would have to(with the Churchs Holy blessing, bien sur) do away withany Godless Arabs that might, for some inexplicable reason, feel that ,to parphrase Woodys song.this land is our land.
Little Acorns
Like most of us, the Templars started small. So small, and poor, that their first emblem was two knights riding on one horse! However, the Templars had a high friend in Holy places, in the person of Bernard(later St. Bernard) of Clairvaux. His movin n shakin convinced the Pope In 1129 to annoit the Templars with his Holy mumbo jumbo. Now, they could attract enough investors to afford a horse for each knight. High cotton!
Not On the Wagon
The Templars name .Nothing to do with temperance, Im happy to say. They started out calling themselves The poor fellow soldiers of Christ. Later, after one of the many times they captured Jerusalem(and they lost it just as many) and wanting a permanent base, The King 0 J-town gave them an abandoned(can ya guess why?) mosque on a hill overlooking the city. As the ruins on the mound were(and you gotta love this word) reputed to be the remains of the temple of Solomon, the T-team added of the temple of Solomon to their Corporate identity. And, contractions being as popular then as nowit was inevitably reduced to Knights Templar
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