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The Cathars
Catharism was a medieval revival of Manichaean dualism that masqueraded as true Christianity while denying its foundations. By asserting two ultimate powers a good spiritual god and an evil material god the Cathars rejected creation, the incarnation, the resurrection of the body, and the Trinity. Christ, for them, was only an appearance, not God made flesh. Salvation was escape from matter, not redemption of the world. This led inevitably to hostility toward Biblical law, marriage, property, and history itself. The Old Testament was treated as the work of an evil creator, and God’s law as an…
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