In the 11th and 12th century, a Christian sect known as the Cathars swept through France. Amongst other things, they believed that matter was intrinsically evil and that Jesus could not have been both incarnate in the (sinful) flesh and still be the son of God (they believed that he was a prophet and mortal who died on the cross).
The Catholic Church saw the Cathars as dangerously heretical and in 1209, Pope Innocent III launched the Albigensian Crusade to wipe out the Cathars (in which about 1 million people were killed).
Legend has it that four Cathar priests escaped with a sacred scroll, believed to have been written by Jesus himself, and hid pieces of the scroll around the world for safekeeping. They encoded the locations of these scrolls by weaving codes into cloths (Weaving was big for the Cathars - they even called themselves The Weavers).
And now, according to conspiracy theorists, the surviving Cathars/Weavers have initiated a sinister plan that will change the future of mankind....
Here's a short clip at History of the Cathars, which you'll probably find quite entertaining if you like The Da Vinci Code sort of thing: http://www.history-of-the-cathars.com/ [Flash video] - Thanks Sam Alexander!
That pretty much summarizes the catholic church (and what's wrong with a lot of religion.)
And I am not an athiest.
Is there any filtering applied to content here? Or does just anything get the go ahead?
The general state of anarchy proposed by most end times literature (the Revelations, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", Mad Max, et al) leads me to the believe the end times will in reality consist of happiness and cake. Chocolate cake. With milk chocolate icing.
Actually, this pretty much summarizes what's wrong with a lot of religion:
In the words of Ayn Rand, "The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive—a definition that invalidates man’s consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence . . . Man’s mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God . . . Man’s standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man’s power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith . . . The purpose of man’s life . . . is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
That or I just got distracted by the good doctor's bow tie and matching handkerchief.
Oh Look its the second coming!!!! ZOMG!!!!!!! Chariots of fire and everything!!!!!!
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Made you look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
I can't believe it is still making the rounds. Guess that's the joy of the internet.
Brad Hoffstetter
Communications Division
Assembly of good Christians
www.cathar.net
Brad Hoffstetter
Communications Division
Assembly of good Christians
http://www.cathar.net
The Analytical Middle Ground,
Brandon,
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