{"id":32105,"date":"2012-11-29T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T11:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32105"},"modified":"2012-11-29T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T13:39:51","slug":"the-more-things-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32105","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade while attending an ecclesiastical conference in Clermont, France. His exact speech is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/urban2-5vers.html#robert\">disputed<\/a> but history shows his words were sufficient to inspire all of Christendom to wage war upon the Muslims then occupying Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>September 13, 2001, a different crusader <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:cU0cn85XM2UJ:http:\/\/old.nationalreview.com\/coulter\/coulter.shtml%2Bann+coulter+kill+their+leaders&amp;rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;startIndex=&amp;startPage=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk\">preached the same message in fewer words<\/a>: \u201cWe should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity . . . This is war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a thousand years and we still haven\u2019t solved the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of those faiths went through a Renaissance, a Reformation, and a half a millennium of civil evolution. The other largely did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade while attending an ecclesiastical conference in Clermont, France. His exact speech is disputed but history shows his words were sufficient to inspire all of Christendom to wage war upon the Muslims then occupying Jerusalem. September 13, 2001, a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-history-and-its-making","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32106,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions\/32106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}