User:Sdsguy

History student at San Diego State, Sdsguy focuses on the American Revolutionary war and American social aspects in post WWII. Feel free to contact me through the MyTalk page up top if you need anything.

San Diego Natural History Museum
Creator of the San Diego Natural History Museum page and primary person responsible for upkeep of the page.

Knights Templar
Sections I've added on the Knights Templar page but were deleted.

Trials
The Knights Templar were accused of several charges, including denying Christ, heresy, sodomy (sexual deviance), idolatry, secrecy, and not making charitable donations. Many of the charges that were brought against the Templars are charges similar to what many witches faced. Heresy, sexual deviance, idolatry, and denying Christ were all charges that many witches faced from the Church. Like the mystery cults in the Greco-Roman world, secrete initiation rites always aroused suspicion of the Church. Since the Initiation Rites of the Templars was an absolute secrete, there was no way for the Templars to disprove the charges and the only thing that could be used was a confession. The trials themselves were a form of the Inquisition, and the Inquisitor General of France was Philip's confessor.

Jacques de Molay
While being burned at the stake, Jacques de Molay is said to have cursed Pope Clement and King Philip and his family and in proof of the Order's innoncence, Pope Clement and King Philip would die within 40 days and a year, respectively. Both men had died by November 30, 1314.