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A dualist Christian heresy Jiang describes as seeing the material world as the devil's prison for pure souls.
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Catharism
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...France, in a place called Albi, this community practices something called Catharism, okay? Catharism is actually a pretty diverse belief, okay? But its main..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...France, in a place called Albi, this community practices something called Catharism, okay? Catharism is actually a pretty diverse belief, okay? But its main..."
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Catharism is presented as a dualist belief that this world was created by the devil and traps pure souls in corrupt bodies.
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"...France, in a place called Albi, this community practices something called Catharism, okay? Catharism is actually a pretty diverse belief, okay? But its main..."
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"So the goal of life is to discover that we are imprisoned and escape our bodies and return to heaven through good works, through..."
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"...are also located, okay? So some historians believe that Protestantism and Catharism, they sort of mingle together. They combine and become conflated together, okay?..."
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"...the Cathars. But also, a lot of them will convert to Catharism knowing that they will die because they are so disgusted by the..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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