Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: or.another!somethin@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: ---> KILLING in the name of God Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 01:41:12 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: the world Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I came across this in another group. I have excluded the authors name so that you religion-zealots won't flame her via e-mail : ------------------------------------------------------- Anyone here remember the Albegensians? They were a nation on the northern coast of Africa which were exterminated by the Catholic Church in medieval times. The capper to the story is that, as the last Albagensian city lay under siege, the Catholic forces prepared to attack. The commander of the forces, one Domingo De Guzman(sp), was approached by a subordinate who reminded the commander that there were TRUE CATHOLIC BELIEVERS in the city. When the subordinate asked for some procedure to follow in dealing with them, Domingo replied,"Kill Everybody. Let God sort them out". Upon his death, Domingo De Guzman was canonized and became Saint Dominic. Make your contributions. But people DO forget, and history does repeat itself ( which is what is wrong with history). [There may be some problems with this. First, as far as I recall (and I'm at Rutgers, so I don't have any of my reference books at hand) the area was in France. The situation was far more complex (and in some ways worse) than simple religious zealotry. The politics between nothern and southern France had become involved, inflamed by greed. Second, the statement "Kill them all. God will know his own" is often regarded as apocryphal. However it does seem to represent what they did, which was certainly not what we expect of Christians... --clh]