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Constantine blundered when he mixed Roman ( pagan) and Catholic ( Christianity)
The Cathar view was that their theology was older than that of the Roman Church and that the Roman Church had corrupted its own scripture, invented new doctrine and abandoned the beliefs and practices of the Early Church. The Catholic view, of course was exactly the opposite, they imagined Catharism to be a badly distorted version of Catholicism. In addition to accusing the Cathars of faulty theology, they imagined a range abominable practices which would have been amusing except that, converted into propaganda, they led to the death of countless thousands through the Cathar Crusades and the Inquisition.
Cathars clearly regarded themselves as good Christians, since that is exactly what they called themselves. On the surface, their basic beliefs seem unremarkable. Most people would have difficulty in distinguishing the principle Cathar beliefs from what are now regarded as conventional orthodox Christian beliefs. However, pursuing their fundamental beliefs to their logical conclusion revealed surprising implications (for example that Roman Catholics were mistakenly following a Satanic god rather than the beneficent god worshipped by the Cathars.)
The Roman Church seemed to have successfully extirpated Cathars and Cathar beliefs by the early fourteenth century, but the truth is more complicated. For one thing, modern historians have shown that many Catholic claims were false, while they have vindicated many Cathar claims; and there is a case that the Cathar legacy is more influential today than has been at any time over the last seven hundred years.
originally posted by: CloneFarm1000
Human sacrifice has always been on the menu of society because people are cattle.
The ones with all the greed are pigs.
The ones who listen blindly are sheep.
The ones who question are black sheep.
And when things go wrong, the black sheep become the scapegoat, to be killed or cast out.
Yom kippur would see the ritualistic sacrifice of a scapegoat to God as well as banish a 2nd scapegoat into the wilderness for the entity Azazel.
Eve partaking of the apple of knowledge, Pandora's Box, The Crusades, The Witch trials... All scapegoats, all blamed for the apartheid of their times.
We don't change.
originally posted by: Stangstunnet13
Lol ok a reply to: All Seeing Eye
originally posted by: libertytoall
One thing I find a constant throughout our history is the story of good vs evil involving pagan gods or false gods in every civilization.