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Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« on: 2012-03-24, 15:03:48 »
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #1 on: 2012-03-24, 16:28:35 »
Not sure how these people can claim to be heirs and even if they were, the Order's vow of poverty forbid any individual member from owning property. Therefore, it all belonged to the church anyway.
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #2 on: 2012-03-24, 16:38:34 »
This lawsuit reeks of shyster lawyers!  :P
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #3 on: 2012-03-25, 13:28:06 »
I can just feel the collective Sigh from the historically aware community.....

This is downright silly.  ::)
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #4 on: 2012-03-25, 13:33:29 »
Also, as far as getting "Their  ::)" property and money back, they should probably be knocking on the doors of the Hospitallers, the French Monarchy, the Teutonic Knights, the Knights of Christ, and the Orders of Santiago and Calatrava instead of the Papacy. The Church held on to very little of the Templar's land and money.
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #5 on: 2012-03-25, 17:17:07 »
As I replied back in 08 on another thread when this surfaced: "The Pope's response should have been- Show me the grail and I'll show you the money."
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #6 on: 2012-03-25, 18:09:18 »
ooooooooooooooo snap
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #7 on: 2012-03-26, 00:58:24 »
Brilliant, Grandmaster Cliff!  ;D
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #8 on: 2012-03-26, 01:57:41 »
Quote from: Frater de Beaumanoir on 2012-03-25, 17:17:07
As I replied back in 08 on another thread when this surfaced: "The Pope's response should have been- Show me the grail and I'll show you the money."

Excellent. :)
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #9 on: 2012-03-26, 23:25:47 »
Thank you Brothers, I'll be in the Preceptory all day...... :P
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #10 on: 2012-03-27, 02:38:51 »
Ah, the famed Chinon Parchment. :)

What gets me about this story is, the way it's written, it says they want an apology from the pope, and *recognition* of the $150 billion in assets. It doesn't say they actually want them, or are trying to claim them. Just that they want recognition of them.

Assets aside, I do think it would be a nice gesture of the pope to make some sort of public announcement that the last 700 years they let everyone call the Templars heretics and devil worshippers, that they were actually absolved....
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Re: Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions
« Reply #11 on: 2012-03-27, 15:11:23 »
Sir James, I agree- they do that much and it should please these 'heirs'.  If anything, we're probably all descendants in some way, shape or form.  :)
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