Note: This post was recovered from the Sh.org archive.Username: EUAFUDate: 2020-08-03 03:25:55Reaction Score: 3
The Cathars, as you well remember, were Manichean and Gnostic, because they affirmed the existence of two opposing principles: that of Good and that of Evil. Therefore, they attributed entity to Evil. They considered that evil had an ontological existence. And this is what made them Manichaeans. Despite this, they claimed to be true and good Christians. Hence they are Christian sect and manichae.
For them, matter would have been created by the god of evil, to imprison in it the spirit of the good God. Therefore, the entire material universe would be evil, and the Creator of the World - which we worship - would be the God of Evil.
As a result, they condemned motherhood, since the mater, the mother, would produce more matter. That's why they said that every pregnant woman was possessed. The woman, as the generator of matter, would be the source of evil. Marriage and procreation were seen as works of the evil god.
It is clear that such doctrines viewed life with a bad eye. And not only life, but existence itself was seen as a bad thing. It was, then, in the logic of your system to admit success. But, as they condemned all matter, suicide should be due to starvation. It was what they called "endura", or ritual suicide, due to starvation. Had the Cathars taken over the world, we would not exist today. They would have extinguished humanity.
The popular reaction against the crimes of Qatarism was violent. The people, uncontaminated by these errors, on learning of a crime caused by this doctrine, massacred the murderers of pregnant women and those who had provoked such crimes.
In order to curb these lynchings, and to have a correct judgment, the Church instituted the Inquisition.
This court was demanded by the people, and when it was installed somewhere, the first thing it did was to set a pardon period. Anyone who came forward, confessing to having adhered to the Cathar heresy, was forgiven. For the Inquisition, what was confessed under torture was not valid as proof. The Inquisition was the first court in the world to refuse, as evidence, what a defendant would confess under torment.
The condemnation of a heretic to capital punishment was only for those who had provoked major crimes. Contrary to what is commonly said, capital punishments were relatively few. Only a very small percentage of trials ended with the capital punishment enacted, and still much smaller was the percentage of capital punishments enacted and carried out.
The most common penalties of the Inquisition were those received today in confessional: saying some prayers, doing some fasting, pilgrimages or pilgrimages, etc.
Unfortunately, popular catharism is reappearing, because intellectual catharism has always been kept alive and secret.
Romanticism and Nazism were linked to Catharism. The Nazis made pilgrimages to Mont Ségur, the last Cathar fortress. Several romantic authors have admitted to admiring this Gnostic heresy.
If you want to read more about the Cathars, I recommend Arno Borst's book "Les Cathares", and the works of Michel de Roquebert "(Histoire des Cathares, and" L 'Epopée cathare "in several volumes as well as those of René Nelly, (These last two authors are pro-Cathars).
Cathars are the same types of bastards who nowadays preach the death of billions of people to "save the climate". The difference is that the Cathars were openly imbecile, while the News-Cathars use pseudo science to spread their nonsense.