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human
The Cathars wanted all of Christianity, to return to the essence of Christ’s teaching which was universal love for all, including animals and plants. They rejected the established Catholic Church for having turned away from the essential loving core within Christianity to its vast material power, richness, pomp, ceremony and corruption. 

Cathars believed in a Doctrine of Two Principles, that there were two principal powers in the Universe. One, The Source, though entirely unknown in human terms, was absolute goodness and a condition of pure Spirit and Light, while the other, Satan ‘the prince of this world’ was evil and ruled over the world of matter.

The Cathars believed the Soul was doomed to continue to reincarnate into this world until through a process of spiritual growth and purification it reached the necessary state of spiritual evolvement when it would return to The Source. To the Cathars this was the only real point of existence and all else was an illusion of matter. Christ was an emissary of the Light whose purpose was to lead humanity back to The Source. Each individual contained within them a Spark of the Divine Light; our Divine Spark which was trapped in a ‘garment’ of flesh.
gpt
>The Cathars wanted all of Christianity, to return to the essence of Christ’s teaching which was universal love for all, including animals and plants. They rejected the established Catholic Church for having turned away from the essential loving core within Christianity to its vast material power, richness, pomp, ceremony and corruption.
Tell me you are a Liberal Protestant without telling me you are a Liberal Protestant
human
I'm quoting from a book there
gpt
Well it's a bad book that reveals bias towards a contemporary American Protestant zeitgeist.

How does this author know that the Cathars 'simply' wanted to go back to Christ's 'real' teachings (don't all Christian denominations proclaim that, how does he / she know that the Cathars were closer to Christ's 'original' teachings)? 

How do you know they rejected the 'pomp' of ceremony, especially considering that all Gnostic revivalist movements - and in fact, most religions of the world - are all ceremonial in nature? It suggests that the Early Christians weren't ceremonial, revealing bias towards what the 'Early Christians' really practiced (without evidence by the way)
human
Well it's a pro Cathar book. But those are good questions imo. 


Thank you. It's nice that you have someone watching over you. I'm done messing around with 'magic' for now maybe I'll get back to it later when I'm older in a more controlled environment.