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(14,155 posts)This is odd, will Allen West be fighting on the White Privilege, White Power, White Trash and White Supremacist side ?
Fascism ain't just for white folk any more.
Where is his KKK hood and AR-15 ?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)but its more cosplay
Jirel
(2,018 posts)Theyre right-wing zealot nut jobs whose prime mission is to pacify the holy land. Theyre just a different wing of cosplaytriots who want to bring about the prerequisites for Armageddon, subdue Islam, and promote christianity in the Middle East. Its not exactly how they state it, but thats the crux. Plus, of course, support all those other gross conservative christian values like oppressing women and controlling their bodies.
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)A cosplay, larping group here in the states? To "solemnly protect Christians in the holy land"?? What a fucking joke!! It's not the crusades Allen and guess what? Most of those "holy sites" for Christian's were just random places that were shown to Constantine's mother three hundred years after the time of Christ!
chowder66
(9,073 posts)At dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, scores of French Templars were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Philip, later to be tortured in locations such as the tower at Chinon, into admitting heresy and other sacrilegious offenses in the Order. Then they were put to death. There were five initial charges lodged against the Templars. The first was the renouncement and spitting on the cross during initiation into the Order. The second was the stripping of the man to be initiated and the thrice kissing of that man by the preceptor on the navel, posteriors and the mouth. The third was telling the neophyte (novice) that unnatural lust was lawful and indulged in commonly. The fourth was that the cord worn by the neophyte day and night was consecrated by wrapping it around an idol in the form of a human head with a great beard, and that this idol was adored in all chapters. The fifth was that the priests of the order did not consecrate the host in celebrating Mass.[12][13] On August 12, 1308, the charges would be increased and would become more outrageous, one specifically stated that the Templars worshipped idols, specifically made of a cat and a head, the latter having three faces. The lists of articles 86 to 127[3] would add many other charges.[14][15] The majority of these charges were identical to the charges that had been earlier issued against the inconvenient Pope Boniface VIII: accusations of denying Christ, spitting and urinating on the cross, and devil worship. Of the 138 Templars (many of them old men) questioned in Paris over the next few years, 105 of them "confessed" to denying Christ during the secret Templar initiations. 103 confessed to an "obscene kiss" being part of the ceremonies, and 123 said they spat on the cross. Throughout the trial there was never any physical evidence of wrongdoing, and no independent witnesses; the only "proof" was obtained through confessions induced by torture.[7] The Templars reached out to the Pope for assistance, and Pope Clement did write letters to King Philip questioning the arrests, but took no further action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Knights_Templar#Decline
The ass-kissing makes a lot of sense as to why West joined though.
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)I wish he would just go away.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)All Wikipedia can say about it is how they fight each other for control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_the_Temple_of_Jerusalem
There's some vague "humanitarian aid" purpose, but if that were actually what they are interested in, they'd achieve more by donating to Oxfam, or volunteering locally. That wouldn't give them the chance for fancy dress, of course. It seems a good fit for a prat like West.