The Albigenses certainly shouldn’t have been crusaded against. But they were not forerunners of todays fundamanalists or evangelicals.
In fact, they were gnostics and Manicheans, not Christians by any logical use of the term. They had a great many doctrines wildly at variance with the Bible and Protestantism.
“The Albigenses certainly shouldn’t have been crusaded against. But they were not forerunners of todays fundamanalists or evangelicals.
In fact, they were gnostics and Manicheans, not Christians by any logical use of the term. They had a great many doctrines wildly at variance with the Bible and Protestantism.”
NOBODY should have been crusaded against, by any church that calls itself Christian! JesuNEVER commanded us to saughter people.
As for the Albigenses, heresy was only attributed to them in order to kill them, because their way of life was seen as a threat by the Vatican. They were not Manichean or Gnostic. They practiced a pure Christian life that was a judgement against the paganism of the dark and middle ages. It was the established church that was heretical. That’s why the Reformation.