Word: albigensian
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...policy more succinctly than its most eloquent critics and indicates how far we have travelled in the realms of hypocritical self-justification. We are close to the famous words of the bishop at the siege of Beziers, who was asked how to distinguish loyal citizens from Albigensian heretics: "Kill them all, God will know his own." Torquemada, weeping for the souls of unbelievers he had saved by burning their bodies at the stake, recalls our President's portrait of himself kneeling in prayer...
...melancholy rape of Languedoc, which, under the name of the Albigensian crusade, took place during 35 years of unparalleled human savagery following the slaughter at Béziers, has now preoccupied Zoë Oldenbourg through one remarkable volume of history (Massacre at Montségur) and two less remarkable historical novels...
...were asking for it. One of them, typically, made passionate love to various broad-royals until an angry count cut the blackguard's heart out, had it roasted and served to his unfaithful countess. Others sang such outrageous satires against the papacy that they helped provoke the ruinous Albigensian Crusade. Small wonder they died out. During the two centuries in which they flourished, there were about 400 of these minstrels. Today there is roughly...
...footnote to your story, we are told that the Albigensians adopted a "strict, other worldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church." Do you consider that advocacy of suicide is "strict, otherworldly practice of Christian ity"? Are you in favor of the Albigensian doctrine of concubinage and unrestrained carnal actions, as "strict and otherworldly Chris tianity"? . . . If the Albigensian heresy had triumphed, it would have meant the destruc tion of civilization through the ruination of the home and family because of their anti social teaching on marriage. They were a threat not only to the church...
...kind of moral effort a biographer put into the mouth of St. Dominic. Whether Dominic actually said it or not, the words are a call to men everywhere who face the Communist threat. When papal legates (the story goes) came in splendor to help him fight the Albigensian heretics of southern France, St. Dominic entreated them thus...