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Killing Turks pleases the devil, because however wicked they are, they are people for whose salvation Christ died
Drawn from what Desiderius Erasmus said
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- Desiderius Erasmus Dutch humanist scholar and theologian (1469 to 1536)
For be the Turks never so wicked, yet they are men, for whose salvation Christ suffered death. And killing Turks we offer to the devil most pleasant sacrifice, and with that one deed we please our enemy, the devil, twice: first because a man is slain, and again, because a Christian man slew him.
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