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Catharism

A dualist Christian heresy Jiang describes as seeing the material world as the devil's prison for pure souls.

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Cathar belief model as presented in this lecture.

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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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The Church That Demanded Your Soul

2025-03-20, day precision · Civilization #40: Church and Empire

Transcript

"...France, in a place called Albi, this community practices something called Catharism, okay? Catharism is actually a pretty diverse belief, okay? But its main..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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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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