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Less formal English translations have given rise to variants such as "Kill them all; let God sort them out." Some modern sources give the quotation as Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet, evidently a translation from English back into Latin, and so omitting a biblical reference to 2 Timothy 2:19 evident in the original.
1. “Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out”. Have you ever heard the phrase? It’s even worked it’s way into pop culture. For example, The Simpsons episode “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” where Marge says: “Well, Bart, your Uncle Arthur used to have a saying, ‘Shoot ’em all and let God sort ’em out.’.
Over the next four decades, roughly a million more people were killed during those bloody religious conflicts. Amalric’s infamous quotation was updated during the Vietnam War, when the saying “Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out” became popular among American Special Forces troops.
It showed a skeletal face wearing a Marine Corps cover with red burning eyes and its boney fingers gripping an M-16. Above the face it read “Kill’em all” and below it read “Let God sort’em out.” I would later encounter the phrase again in other contexts when I became a Marine myself.
While there remains doubt that the abbot said these words – also paraphrased as "Kill them all; God will know His own", "Kill them all; God will sort his own", or "Kill them all and let God sort them out" – there is little if any doubt that these words captured the spirit of the assault, and that the Crusaders intended to slaughter the ...
That is the origin of the modern phrase: " Kill them all and let God sort them out ." Caesarius did not hear that statement firsthand but merely wrote that Arnaud was reported to have said it ( dixisse fertur in the original text). [5] . This famous response is widely considered apocryphal.
Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209. A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is "Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own".
