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Knights Templar: Christian Minister
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Despite their fearsome, battle-hardened reputation, the Knights Templar were learned men, dedicated to protecting travellers and pilgrims of all religions, not just Christians. They were great statesmen, politically adept, economic traders, and they were apparently allied with the great sailor-fraternity that had created a worldwide trading empire in Phoenician times.
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There is much written about the methods and places the Knights Templar used to hide; sometimes renaming themselves was enough for them to escape ignorant Christian persecution. Forming various groups, underground and open, they spread far and wide. There is a lot made of their movement to Scotland and battles they fought there previously, and of their founding of the Illuminati and therefore the Free Masons. The Templars were a true elite with a beautifully decadent and indulgent internal society, matching the styles of later Satanic groups.
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[If this author really believes that the pope, the knights templar etc. who were behind the crusades were Christians she needs her head examined - they were bloodthirsty, looting murderers, not Christians]
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