Davidius
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I remember hearing from Reformed folk that the Albigensians were some kind of proto-Protestants. When I searched for them on Wikipedia, I got an entry for "Catharism." Are these the same? The article states that Catharism was done away with during the Albigensian Crusade, but the beliefs attributed to them in the article sound like the only thing they have in common with Protestants is that they Protested against "perceived immorality in the Church." They sound like gnostics. They believed that earth and matter were evil and that our world had been created by Satan (like the Demiurge in gnosticism) and that he was the God of the Old Testament, some kind of docetism, that sex was generally a bad idea and procreation to be avoided, no eating meat or dairy, possibly denying a bodily resurrection, et al. What's all this about?
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism[/ame]
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism[/ame]