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Now I am impressed! A history minor...WOW! With excellent profs...WOW and WOW again! In my experience, history majors or minors were in school just treading water as long as daddy's money lasted or until they found a husband! I was in my late 30's when I went back to school to get degreed up while dad was long gone with the money and I'm straight so I wasn't there for a husband so I wound up with a MSEE without much "history" but then I got out of HS in the early '60's when it was still required at all levels and taught properly!
Bottom line is you have proven you don't know Jack and you don't know Shit! Pope Urban II didn't call on the Kings of Europe to drive the Moors from Europe as you asserted, fool! He called on them to take back the Holy Lands, Jerusalem and parts of the Byzantine Empire which had been occupied. We poor, poor engineers just really don't have all the money burning his story, husband hunting background you minors of the subject might have, but we had the smarts to remember the ******* highlights of the subject the first time through. Now go to the corner and pout about getting stuffed yet again, foolish woman!
Ah yes, you are a liar as well as ignorant.
Speech of Pope Urban II
Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania [the Greek empire] as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont, which is called the Arm of St. George. They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them in seven battles. They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the empire. If you permit them to continue thus for awhile [
sic] with impunity, the faithful of God will be much more widely attacked by them. On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends.