This was their only 'crime'...I have no doubt (along with many historians) the charges against these Christians was fabricated by the Catholic religion to keep Catholics from seeking out the Albigensians...
The crimes of ALL heretics to the Catholic religion are posted in the first paragraph here...
The Albigensians are equated by the Catholic religion as being the forerunners of Protestantism as well as immorality, sexual perversion and all the ills of the world...The nasty Protestants...
If I had lived back then, I proudly would have been an Albigensian...
This entire wailing diatribe (the OP) is such a load of horse poop. Just the Romans spouting their company line for the purpose of self justification. Because if they truly looked at what they had done, and that in the name of Messiah, the 'holiness' and 'infallibility' of their organization, not to mention the history they cling to, would crumble into dust.
The OP states they thought sex was awful - yet they had large families, and their general population was huge - Big enough to threaten the authority of the Roman church. It is altogether obvious that they were reproducing at a furious rate.
The OP states they forbade marriage - yet history shows them being normal family units, with husband, wife, and children. - They simply were not married according to the Roman church, because they didn't see the purpose in standing before a Roman priest.
The OP then goes on to proclaim that they practiced any and all sorts of sexual perversion outside of a legal marriage - Or at least equates them to a modern equivalent - Yet the record shows them to be a very upright, somewhat prudish people, well respected by their neighbors, in much the same way as Amish/Mennonite/Hutterites are thought of today... different but good.
And lastly, the immediate allusions to their being maniacal - yet their Romanist neighbors often fought and DIED in defense of them, most notably at Benziers - Against... AGAINST their own religious leaders.
There is no question but that this 'history' is papist propaganda. And the more one looks, the more one will see exactly the same thing, all the way along the sordid history of the Roman church.