Who else is listening to Rush try to justify the Inquisition and Crusades?

Here is a good Rush song justifying dumping RELIGION and supernatural nonsense:

RUSH – ROLL THE BONES

Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

Well, you can stake that claim –

Good work is the key to good fortune

Winners take that praise

Losers seldom take that blame

If they dont take that game

And sometimes the winner takes nothing

We draw our own designs

But fortune has to make that frame

We go out in the world and take our chances

Fate is just the weight of circumstances

Thats the way that lady luck dances

Roll the bones

Why are we here?

Because were here

Roll the bones

Why does it happen?

Because it happens

Roll the bones

Faith is cold as ice –

Why are little ones born only to suffer

For the want of immunity

Or a bowl of rice?

Well, who would hold a price

On the heads of the innocent children

If theres some immortal power

To control the dice?

We come into the world and take our chances

Fate is just the weight of circumstances

Thats the way that lady luck dances

Roll the bones

Jack — relax.

Get busy with the facts.

No zodiacs or almanacs,

No maniacs in polyester slacks.

Just the facts.

Gonna kick some gluteus max.

Its a parallax — you dig?

You move around

The small gets big. its a rig.

Its action — reaction –

Random interaction.

So whos afraid

Of a little abstraction?

Cant get no satisfaction

From the facts?

You better run, homeboy –

A facts a fact

From nome to rome, boy.

Whats the deal? spin the wheel.

If the dice are hot — take a shot.

Play your cards. show us what you got –

What youre holding.

If the cards are cold,

Dont go folding.

Lady luck is golden;

She favors the bold. thats cold.

Stop throwing stones –

The night has a thousand saxophones.

So get out there and rock,

And roll the bones.

Get busy!

I do not listen to Rush. It sounds like you do.

Muslim armies had conquered Syria, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Sicily, Southern Italy, Cyprus, Rhodes, Sardinia, Majorca, Crete, and Malta which had been some of the most heavily Christian areas in the world. They attacked Rome and came within 100 miles of Paris before being pushed back.

Thousands, and possibly millions, of Christians died during this drive to eventually bring the entire world under Islam.

In addition, thousands of Christian travelers to the Holy Land were being killed, robbed, or kidnapped for ransom.

Then, the final straw, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos urgently requested that the Pope send western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the Muslim armies who were invading Constantinople.

The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II to check the advance olf the Muslims and regain control of the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

If this defensive war was not fought then we would probably all be Muslim today.

I am sure that some atrocities were committed by individuals of both sides during this war but by most people's judgment this was a just war.

For more information, see:

+ The Crusaders by Régine Pernoud

+ God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (2009) by Rodney Stark

+ Islam at the Gates (2008) by Diane Moczar

+ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade

+ Crash Course on the Crusades by Steve Weidenkopf http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/crash-course-on...

With love in Christ.

I have not listened to that man in a couple years. Or any right wing talk radio since it has taken issue with Libertarianism. My take on it is that if you are on the right and you have an issue with Libertarianism, you are a fake. Your cause is to use constitutionality as talk to gain popularity but when tested, you will be the same old absolutist. Perhaps with a Fascist slant. Rush is interested in telling truth for only one reason: to be able to slip in strategic lies having lowered his audience's guard.

I can understand atleast a few of the crusades but the inquisition is iredeemable. They used some of the "enhanced interrogation" methods cons love today though so I could understand how it could be justified though in the barbaric mind of a con.

I cant believe people still listen to Rush. I like Rush the band but not Rush the Limbaugh

Can you change a dam thing that happened 100's of years ago. Don't use it justify to it happening again.

Apparently, you don't actually know the history of the crusades.

I'm listening to an oldies station.

How many of you are buying into the idea that these were just about stopping militant Islam?

Many. They flock to him for food. Mental food stimulation to supplement what they lack in human nature. And its like Chinese food. They are constantly hungry.