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Catharism - Wikipedia According to tradition, Cathars believed that the good God was the God of the New Testament faith and creator of the spiritual realm Many Cathars identified the evil god as Satan, the master of the physical world, who was the same as the God of the Old Testament
Cathars - World History Encyclopedia Cathars rejected the teachings of the Catholic Church as immoral and most of the books of the Bible as inspired by Satan They rejected the Church for what they saw as hypocrisy of the clergy and the Church's acquisition of land and wealth
The Fall of Spirituality: The Blood-Soaked History of the Cathars Catharism was dominant mostly in the region of southern France and northern Italy, but its roots go deeper and far from there It is commonly agreed that it stems from the Paulician movement, an adoptionist sect that was created in the 7th century in Armenia
Cathari | Medieval Christian Sect Beliefs | Britannica Cathari, (from Greek katharos, “pure”), also spelled Cathars, heretical Christian sect that flourished in western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries The Cathari professed a neo-Manichaean dualism —that there are two principles, one good and the other evil, and that the material world is evil
Who Were the Cathars? Teachings of the Yeshua Mary . . . Rather than worshipping a distant God through the authority of a church, the Cathars followed a direct, spiritual Christianity — one grounded in inner transformation, simplicity, and divine love Their beliefs were considered heretical by the Catholic Church, but for many walking the priestess path today, they carry a profound resonance