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Story: Scars Upon The Lake

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Endgame at Kaunas Castle (Siege of Kaunas) by Giuseppe Rava

One thing that pisses me off about Christians is that even the ‘good’ ones can’t stand the idea of Christians being bad people. You show them an example of Christianity being used to justify atrocities and you’re met with Christians crying ‘but Jesus wouldn’t do that!’ Or worse, ‘those people aren’t real Christians! They don’t speak for us!’ Yes, they are real Christians, because like it or not, they are, or were Christians just like you.

The Teutonic Order wasn’t Jewish, or Muslim, it was Christian. The Nazi party was Christian, deeply so, and it sold people ‘family values’ and idyllic visions of blonde, blue eyed children raised by Christian mothers. Colonialists throughout history have tried to eradicate people’s native faiths and force them to convert to Christianity. The Salem witch trials saw women being burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft, or just doing anything that men didn’t like. The Catholic Church opposed women’s rights, and for years, it covered up the sexual abuse of children within the church. The Catholic Church. Christian institutions. Not Jewish, not Satanic, not Hindu, Christian institutions are the ones responsible for all of these atrocities.

‘But Jesus wouldn’t approve of that!’

And what if he did? Would that make any of the above ok? It wouldn’t. Jesus is not your get out of jail free card, and you cannot use him to avoid confronting the atrocities that Christians have committed. The opinion of one person you like cannot override historical facts.

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MYSTERIA ECCLESIAE — The Teutonic Order

A knightly order originating in the Holy Land during the Crusades. Its full name is the Order of the Brothers of the German House of the Virgin Mary in Jerusalem. Originally a hospitaller brotherhood, it gradually transformed into a military knightly order bringing together German-speaking knights. With the decline of the Crusader states, the order first moved to Venice and then to Transylvania in the region known as Burzenland, and later, after conflicts with the Hungarian king, to the Baltic region. Here, as part of Christianization, it fought against the pagan Prussians and gradually gained territory on which it established a rich, well-organized, and powerful knightly state. The order established castles as the pillars of its power, the largest of which was Marienburg, as well as towns that became important economic centers. The Order had possessions and influence even outside its own state, especially in the Holy Roman Empire. The knightly state reached its greatest fame and power around the middle of the 14th century, but it had to face pressure from the Polish kingdom and also from the Lithuanians, who had converted to Christianity. The Order's power was finally broken in 1410 in the great Battle of Grünwald. Subsequently, the Order gradually lost its eastern territories and focused more on the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg dynasty.

TRIVIA

— The Teutonic Order began not as a purely military institution, but as a German hospital fraternity formed during the Third Crusade around the siege of Acre in 1190. Founded by merchants from Bremen and Lübeck, it originally took over a hospital in the city to care for the sick and wounded. Later, it evolved into a military order recognized by Pope Clement III, and the Order, alongside it's charitable goals, started to play an important role in Outremer (the general name for the Crusader states), controlling the port tolls of Acre.

Even after the loss of its medieval territories and general decline following the Battle of Grunwald (1410), the Order did not disappear. It continued to exist in a reduced, primarily charitable form through the early modern period. It was briefly formally outlawed in 1938 under Nazi Germany, only to be re-established after 1945. Today it survives primarily as a religious and charitable institution in Central Europe.

One of the most recognizable symbols of the Order was its white surcoat marked with a black cross (cross pattée.). Other recognizable traits of the Order were its motto, "Helfen, Wehren, Heilen" ("Help, Defend, Heal"), alongside its famous Rules of the Teutonic Order. These rules were set into place for all Teutonic knights to follow, and among the numerous manuscripts of the statutes, the oldest extant is a Middle German manuscript, dated from 1264. An excerpt from it says:

The brethren of this order are allowed to wear and use linen for undershirts, for drawers and hose, for sheets and for bed covers, and for other things, when suitable. Outer garments shall be of sober hue. The brother knights shall wear white mantles as a sign of knighthood. (...) We decree that each brother wear a black cross on mantle, cappen and armor surcoats to show outwardly that he is a special member of this Order. Furs shall be of no material other than sheep or goat skins, yet goat shall be given to no one, unless he asks for it. The brethren shall have shoes without laces, or buckles, or rings. But should it happen, which God forbid, that a brother outrageously insists on arms or clothing or such things finer or better than those given him, then he deserves to be given worse. For this proves how much he is lacking in the clothing of the heart and in inner virtue, who bothers so much about the outer needs of the body. Since clerics living in the world should show their religion by their clothing, so it is all the more seemly that those in the Order use special clothing.

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