User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-31.123.94.63-20141216090308/@comment-3338401-20141216170150

The Templars fundamental goal is the same as the Assassin's: Peaceful Society. Slavery to the modern (at that point) templar ideology was that it didn't further any goals to create a peaceful society and just created further divides, though some Templars with different ideologies would disagree but the majority at the point in question were for more subtle less forceful ways.