PAIN NEEDS TO INSTRUCT US SOME | 2007-02-12
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Cathar just means "Puritan."
English Reformers and loyalists to Rome actually used the term along with "Precisianist" (in the 39 Articles) and other terms. I am sure they remembered the Albigensian Cathars who fought English knights in France 400 years before and that the comparison was deliberate.
"The Puritans did not condemn reproduction, which is the essence of Catharism."
You are right, the Puritans favored reproduction but not what caused reproduction. The Cathars condemned reproduction but they populated large communities in the south of France. They each were sexually austere, and this leads to the sterility you speak about.
There were many splinter groups that fit under the Puritan umbrella. Most stayed loyal to England, but the Pilgrims abandoned England for Holland before setting sail to the New World.
Are you linking them to their descendants who abandoned the Union for Empire?
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"Are you linking them to their descendants who abandoned the Union for Empire? "
The less important point here is my reply to y9our question: No, Pain, if I meant that I wold have SAID it.
INFINITELY more important is that you have grabbed what I said and run with it. This is what I LIVE for!
Go ahead and expand on this point for us! It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't HAVE to be but a few sentences., though more is welcome. We need demonstrations here of how to BUILD on my points.