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No question Soldier's criticism of religious extremism is painfully relevant, but it's hard to appreciate that message when you're busy rolling your eyes.
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly
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The Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions bloodthirstily vie with one another for power and control.
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