Following Orders

[Just Jesse]

hes from sweeden, he likes vikings too

[Sir William Marcus]

Ya..Das good! 

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

sweeden huh? Interesting....

[Femme Falchion]

I used to dream in Valkyrian, of course this was before I was exorcised by Brother William



(that's me, second back, behind my girl, Freya  )

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

I guess there's something to be said for pagan possession.

It is an interesting history of how the wandering monks converted the Norse minded pagans.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

  with the tip of a sword right

[Femme Falchion]

I would guess the conversion was not quite so aggressive...given that it sounds as if the Christian monks were working solo.  Can you give us a brief synopsis Warrior Monk?

I guess there's something to be said for pagan possession

Flying mounts, magic bracers, great hair and fabulous threads....what could be better?   

It may not be easily seen by my avatar but I have a pretty cool metal helm-type headpiece that was made by a blacksmith outside of Asheville that smacks of the Valkyries. 

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Lady ASHley, I was referring to the conversion of those NORSE followers on the British Isle (earlier Saxon, Angles, Jutes travelers, as well as Celts, Picts, and Roman left overs) It was all just a matter of word association. Your God is my God, you just call him something different, as well as lesser dieties mirroring Saints. I believe Thomas Paine summed it up best with his assessment of Christianity. (I'll leave that for your homework for the weekend)

But the tips and edges of "Frankish" steel worked well for the Teutonic Order in their conversion of the "less theologically fortunate".

[Femme Falchion]

what a fun assignment, you really should be teaching history too (and be compensated for it)

"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he [man] does not believe."

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

what a fun assignment, you really should be teaching history too (and be compensated for it)

You are all too kind with your appraisal, or just easily amused.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

During his imprisonment, Paine embarked on his third influential work, The Age of Reason (London and Boston, 1794-95). A deist manifesto to the core, Paine acknowledged his debt to Newton and declared that nature was the only form of divine revelation, for God had clearly established a uniform, immutable and eternal order throughout creation. Paine rejected Christianity, denied that the Bible was the revealed word of God, condemned many of the Old Testament stories as immoral and claimed that the Gospels were marred by discrepancies. There was nothing really that new in Paine's argument, but the bitterness of his attack on the Christian churches and his attempt to preach deism to the masses made him more enemies than before-----Note the research does not reflect same views as the postieee

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Very good young Padawan.
I was mearly referring to some of the following points of his, that I've shared off line with other revered Thread contibutors.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. he Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun (hence my reference to pagan conversion, but it is covered in more detail in one of my tomes) , in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun."

[Femme Falchion]

No one could dispute that nature is divine after walking in my woods today!  Gorgeous autumn day.  A daily walk is a part of my spiritual practice. 

What tome are you referring to Warrior Monk?

Excellent work Militissa....and I acknowledge your differing beliefs.   

[Just Jesse]

anyone going to mobile in a week

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Fighting for the Faith was the one, if memory serves me correctly.