On the Crusades. This is full of common missinformation and reflects more the contemporary view of the world than what realy happened.
First of all pretty much all Crusader Orders were not founded in Jerusalem actually, but by letters send around among Europes aristocracy missing relatives not coming back from pilgramages. They united in Jerusalem as the main meeting point. The names derive from the initators and financiers.
The Chastity symbol shown in the video is a deadly way of torture that was banned by the Church hindering hygene. Today that oath would be transtlated into faithfullness, wich back than named the strong faith in God no matter the suffering.
Poverty of the Templers ment not to have no money, but not spending money for personal wealth. Imagine Mr Homm having used his knowledge for only the gain of wealth of his clients and not for a Villa he slept in once and kilos of Cokaine through his nose to understand the idea of a Templers poverty oath dedicated against greed.
The rest comes from there and today we believe that the war was Christianity against Moslems and nothing else while there was a great intellectual and coltourel exchange at the endpoint of the Silk Road. China was known to exist since Jesus times and there was a lot of loot to be made in that area. Today, the Templars for well understand who was the murderers. Not one was Moslem... but sadly a form of Nomad that already Mohammed The Prophet fought.
Yours,
A RoseCrusader Templer of Traveller blood
