Sacrosanct

Season 2: Heresy, The Inquisition, and The Problem of Evil.

Three main Secret Societies emerged during The Crusades from different groups and for different reasons. The Knights Templar is the most well-known. These monk-soldiers started a financial network that lifted their group into a position of power. The Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights are two other types of societies that emerged at the same time. The Hospitallers offered medical help to pilgrims and crusaders seeking passage to The Holy Land. Teutonic Knights were warriors from a Germanic influence. These societies and their role in The Crusades is discussed.

We discuss the Crusades, exposing them as exercises in defeat and futility. The perception of the Crusader, even seen in some school mascots, is one of strength and power. The Crusades themselves were anything but. With multiple leaders, covering 200 years, only one of the nine Crusades could be considered successful. We talk about the reasons why and the beginnings of secret organizations like The Knights Templar.

Meant as a bonus summary episode, this expanded into something more. We discuss Israeli strength, including Operation Entebbe, a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. Also, Jewish history and Christian symbolism are expounded upon. Christian Interpolation is discussed.

B.G. talks about the kind of prayer that he disagrees with and the reasons why. Right after the first millennium since Jesus, we enter the time of forced belief with horrific consequences for noncompliance. Splits in churches and within denominations are also discussed. The very first crusade to recapture Jerusalem starts a troubling precedent that we will see come to horrific fruition. The Church becomes threatened when personal beliefs don’t reflect what is defined as the truth. Visit us online at www.sacrosanct.media

B.G. tells a story about having to preside over an event as Academic Dean of Wofford College in 1973. The college held a Religion Emphasis Week, including a speech by Karla LaVey, whose father, Anton LaVey, was the founder of The Church of Satan. We also discuss belief in general and the troublesome path that Christianity is heading towards because of it.

We discuss The Quran and how many facets of Islam pertaining to it parallel similar ideas in Judaism and Christianity. We also discuss the beginnings of all three faiths and the desire to allow Sharia Law in Muslim communities.

This episode covers the life of Muhammad and rise of Islam both during his life and after his death.

In this episode we discuss the period just before the birth of Muhammad. Some previous topics are discussed further, including the rise of Constantine in Rome and the Trinity.

In this episode we discuss the years that roughly cover 100-400 A.D. leading up to just before Muhammad's birth in 570. Decisions about what is believed are being made causing Christianity to become a bureaucracy.