Gnosticism - Cathars and Catharism: Historical Fact or a Delusion of the Inquisition?

The Cathars represent a Gnostic survival into the Christian Middle Ages. They were dualists who argued for an egalitarian church founded on angelic purity, apostolic poverty, and through a single sacrament sought to release the soul from it’s physical prison. The Catholic Church saw them a utterly heretical and sought to systematically destroy their popular strongholds in southern France through 20 years of Crusader Violence and Inquisition. There’s only one problem with this story: recent, maverick scholarship has forcefully argued that the Cathars and Catharism, quite simply, never existed at all. Join me, in collaboration with @Let’s Talk Religion , as we discuss the Cathars, Catharism and the arguments for and against their historical existence. Check out Filip’s channel here: #cathars #catharism #albigensians