[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:24:49PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> i find this very interesting.  i've increasingly thought of the
> catholic church as not so much a religion as the second roman empire.
> and why [for instance] do they celebrate the saxon fertility goddess
> eostre's festival, complete with rabbits and eggs?  or samhain [celtic
> new year's] eve [halloween], complete with demon and undead costumes?

The "Holy Roman Empire" technicaly was based in Germany and existed
as the Nights Templar until the 1930's, possibly later. They built a 
nice little village near Jerusalem, (now part of the city) still called
the "German Colony" ("Moshava Germanit" in Hebrew). 

The streets mostly have names of famous Englishman, having been renamed
when the Brittish took over and threw the Germans out after WWI.

One of the best movies ever made was called "Aleksandar Nevsky", by Sergi
Eisenstein. It was the story of a battle between the Russians
who were converted to Christianity by the Byantines in the 300's and 
the Templar Knights who wanted to convert them to "Roman Christianity".

The most famous scene of the movie was a battle on the ice in April
1242, where the Germans were defeated. 

While the Vatican is often claimed to be the "World's smallest country",
however I believe that title really belongs to "The Sovereign Military
Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta" also
based in Rome.

Geoff.



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