[Mrs. Don-o]

The Albigensian (Cathar) heretics of 13th century Occitania and Languedoc (NW Italy, southern France and the present day Catalan province of Spain) believed in the heretical doctrine that the human body and all material things are evil, and that one must escape from the body in order to be holy.

They taught that the principal sin was procreation, since it entrapped more good souls in evil bodies; on the other hand, they hailed as the highest virtue, voluntary death by the refusal of food and drink.

They hoped for the entire extinction of the human race. What a horrible group.

They were pretty much defeated by the Cathar Crusade of the 13th century, which was, on the other hand, a horrible thing in itself.

[Talisker]

The Albigensian (Cathar) heretics of 13th century Occitania and Languedoc (NW Italy, southern France and the present day Catalan province of Spain) believed in the heretical doctrine that the human body and all material things are evil, and that one must escape from the body in order to be holy. They taught that the principal sin was procreation, since it entrapped more good souls in evil bodies; on the other hand, they hailed as the highest virtue, voluntary death by the refusal of food and drink.

They hoped for the entire extinction of the human race. What a horrible group.

They were pretty much defeated by the Cathar Crusade of the 13th century, which was, on the other hand, a horrible thing in itself.

Your summation of Cathar beliefs is just a tad biased, incomplete and unfair.

Just a tad.

But hey, the Church slaughtered every last one of them, man woman and child, over a million of them hunted down like dogs for over twenty years, so there's the good news. Nothing like having the moral high ground, eh? Job well done - after all somebody had to take out the trash. At least the nasty buggers aren't around anymore to tell their side of the story.