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The Cathars: A Group Of Christians In Southern France

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The Cathars The Cathars were a group of Christians in southern France in the 12th century, who faced a quarrel with the Roman catholic church and their teachings. Their way of living was very different form the traditional Catholicism. One of the big differences between Catharism and Catholicism was the fact that Cathars thought that the world wasn’t created by God, and that God was completely foreign to this world. Cathars also rejected the authority of Roman Catholic church. Cathars didn’t believe in possessions and thus rejected Roman Catholic church’s wealth. Cathars thought that women were equal in every way, which greatly angered the Roman Catholic church. Cathars didn’t eat meat, because they thought that killing was very

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