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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:10 PM
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Rick Santorum: The Crusades Get A Bad Rap!
If you were worried there wouldn't be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day!

"The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical," former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. "And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom."

Santorum's defense of the Crusades came in Spartanburg, S.C. reports Andy Barr of Politico. South Carolina is an early and important GOP presidential primary state, and Santorum is considering a presidential run.


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/rick-santorum-the-crusades-get-a-bad-rap.php?ref=fpb
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:15 PM
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1. I've heard conservatives defend slavery and the Inquisition
now it's the Crusades. What's next?
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:15 PM
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2. He truly is stupider than Dubya.
Santorum continues to earn his GOOGLE, every day.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:15 PM
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11. If he's dumber than Dubya
he's in with a chance, although I imagine he will be up against some pretty stiff competition in the primaries.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:16 PM
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3. Is this guy one of Colbert's writers?
??
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:18 PM
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4. Forest Gump's future success at CERN is guaranteed
when you compare his intellect with Mr. Frothy Fecal Lube.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:19 PM
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5. Actually, it's the Christian hypocritical bigots that we hate...
...not Christianity itself. Hell, I'm Catholic, but I am anti church right now because of the blatant pedophilia cover up, their stance on gay marriage, married priests, and gay priests. The moderate catholics are at least consistent with their pro life views, but that doesn't make up for all of the other crap.
Duckie
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:21 PM
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6. Wasn't there a lot of man-on-dog sex during the crusades?
:puke:
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:22 PM
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7. At the time, they were seen as an attempt to reclaim what had been part of Christendom
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 06:23 PM by DavidDvorkin
If that's what he means, then he's sort of right. They were depicted as liberation rather than aggression.

That doesn't change the bloodiness and bloodthirstiness of the Crusades, nor the fact that many of the Crusaders in it for the plunder.
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Kennah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:45 PM
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8. Kill them all. God will know his own, right Dick Scrotum?
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northoftheborder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:46 PM
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9. Yeah, the Middle East never forgot that W said the word "crusade."
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:47 PM
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10. What a DICK !
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:46 PM
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12. So, he's saying that Coulter's suggestion to, "invade their countries, kill their leaders,..
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 07:46 PM by MilesColtrane
and convert them to Christianity" has merit?

The only power Santorum should be wielding is the power to SuperSize™ a customer's order.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:48 PM
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13. I think we need to expand the "Santorum" to include "Crusading Santorum"
Paging Dan Savage...
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:54 PM
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14. Proving yet again that Rethugs don't know jack about history.
Bake
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:32 PM
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15. "God, Gold & Glory" the three reasons for the Crusades
using God's name to get the gold and the glory. Some of us do know the history of the crusades, we're not as ignorant as your followers. :silly:
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