The Cathars: Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio

[canada-man]

interview starts 9 minutes into the video

Published on Apr 24, 2013
They were the greatest heresy of the Middle Ages, arguably an offshoot of the ancient Gnostics that undermined the authority of the religious and political powers of the time. Their bloody demise is one of the darkest moments in Christian history that still resonates today. We take a historical and esoteric safari of the Cathars, their history, theology, tragedy and whether or not they truly held some of the ancient treasures like the Holy Grail.

Astral Guest—Sean Martin, author of 'The Cathars' and 'The Gnostics'.

Topics Discussed:
--Understanding the concept of Dualism and how it relates to the Cathars and other Gnostics.
--A detailed account of the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars that lasted decades and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
--The theology and rituals of the Cathars, including their mysterious ceremony of voluntary suicide.
--Evidence revealing that the Cathars might have originated as early as the beginning of Christianity.
--Did the Cathars hold secrets treasures such as the Holy Grail?
--How the Cathar movement survived after the genocide of Southern France, and might be even alive until today.

 

[basketcase]

They're just a religion. Why do you think their religion worth posting when you constantly say religions are horrible?

 

[wilbur]

They're just a religion. Why do you think their religion worth posting when you constantly say religions are horrible?

If you care to listen to it, it illustrates that religion is indeed horrible. In the 13th century, for the first time, the Catholic Church set out on a crusade against fellow Christians, and pretty much wiped out the Cathars, and their sympathisers who were Catholics themselves. Whole towns were destroyed with everybody in it (They would leave God to sort out who was innocent and who were not) and otherwise, hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered, mostly in the Laguedoc region of what is now France. When that was over, they then proceeded with the Inquisition, or the establishment of the first secret police in Europe, where neighbours were encouraged to rat on their neighbours, just like in East Germany a few decades ago, and those caught were subject to torture and subsequent burning at the stake. The Inquisition lasted a few centuries after that. All brought to you by the Catholic Church of Rome.

 

[basketcase]

I have read at length about the Cathars (or the Perfect as they called themselves) and however you want to phrase it, it is a religious view and C-M objects to religion. Yes, the views of the Cathars were a far less centralized religion than the Pope's but it still was a religion.

Just because it was a less invasive religions doesn't make C-M any less of a hypocrite for posting it.

 

[canada-man]

I have read at length about the Cathars (or the Perfect as they called themselves) and however you want to phrase it, it is a religious view and C-M objects to religion. Yes, the views of the Cathars were a far less centralized religion than the Pope's but it still was a religion.

Just because it was a less invasive religions doesn't make C-M any less of a hypocrite for posting it.

hating religion does not prevent one from looking at the origins