Cathars vehemently repudiated the significance of the crucifixion and the cross.
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Cathars who refused to recant were hanged, or burnt at the stake.
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Cathars, in general, formed an anti-sacerdotal party in opposition to the Catholic Church, protesting against what they perceived to be the moral, spiritual and political corruption of the Church.
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Albigenses: a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
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(Cathar) a heretical movement found in Germany, Italy and France in the 11th to 13th centuries, based on a dualist belief in two Gods, one of good and one of evil; also known as Albigensians
Dualist heretics active in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, mostly in southern France; the word derives from the Greek word catharos, "pure".
A member of one of the various ascetic and dualistic Christian sects flourishing in the middle ages teaching that matter is evil, and professing faith in an angelic Christ who did not really undergo human birth or death. ^1
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(cathars) Albigenses: a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
Caamas is a toxic planet in the Cirius System that was formerly a highly populated habitable world, until the Empire bombarded it shortly after the Clone Wars, killing nearly all the inhabitants of the planet. The native Caamasi were a peaceful civilization, much like Alderaan. ...