Week of the Templars storms The Secret World

@Oyjord. You wont find us, we find YOU! The hunter shall become the hunted....!

@Snichy

/em looks at the giant templar banners

yeah... cause you are so hard to find....

@Oyjord Hmm... last time I checked it was the Illuminati that ran away from the Templar jumping over the pond and into New York. Besides you mates are too high to shoot straight anyways. ;-)

@fallwind. Oh lighten up.

@Snichy hey, I'm not the one wearing a big target on my uniform :P

@Mikx

not sure if Godwin's or Poe's.

@Mikx

They are militant with an ages-old structure for following the law.

If anything, the Nazis stole from *them*, although their value system is different and more religious in focus. Heck, the Nazis even stole their symbol from Asia, which adorns several temples (and the American Indians have a similar symbol for life, which means the same in Asia).

@Space Cobra

TSW's Templars are about faith, not religion. Not a huge difference but it's fun to split hairs, isn't it? :P

And the Nazis were similar, at least if you believe the propaganda. They tried to make themselves out to be a spiritual group. Hence all the seeking out of religious artifacts, using the (reversed) swastika, and trying to convince everyone that Hitler was a vegetarian.

If you're a government intent on committing horrors, your people are less likely to object if you can appeal to an abstract 'higher purpose' type morality.

@DancingCow

"If you're a government intent on committing horrors, your people are less likely to object if you can appeal to an abstract 'higher purpose' type morality. "

...or a Religion (re: "The Crusades").

I know, I dug up that old chestnut. ;P

@fallwind Well, I snuck "person with blond hair" in there as an obvious joke, but they do seem to be designed with obvious fascistic overtones.

If you want a genuine example of Godwin's, turn to the FF14 thread where "feminazis" makes an appearance, in the proper context of an argument. ;)

@Mikx

I think it was unintentional, and with the benefit of hindsight they would have themed them a bit differently.

eg. after the shooting in Norway, they replaced one of the blondes in the Templars logo with a brunette.

http://thesecretworld.com/society/templars

@DancingCow

And then I see this:

Yep, I am seeing ducks!

@Mikx
Just because it is a Cross does not mean it is a sign of Christianity. Sometimes Walking and Talking does not mean is.

The symbol of the cross within a circle is very old and has played an important part in the History of Humanity. The symbol can be found in many cultures and many places around the world. From the ‘Rosy’ Cross of the Rosicrucians to the American Indians’ “Sacred Hoop”, from the “Celtic” Cross to the symbol of certain tribes in Western Africa’s Burkina Faso and Ghana.

The cross is a universal symbol; the pattee cross used here is even pre-Christian. It represents the four cardinal points, the four basic directions. The center of the cross represents the meeting point between the material world (horizontal branch) and the spiritual world (vertical branch). The red color of the pattee cross represents the fire of divine love allowing the Templars to fight materially and spiritually against the forces of evil; they wear it on their left chest, the seat of the heart.

In part it was in the minds of the "Knight Tempars" (A small offshoot of the Tempars) that connected the cross to Christianity.