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What if I told you our world isn’t as it seems? That much of what we call politics and the “culture war” is really an ancient theological war over the metaphysics of reality, colliding with the digital revolution? Well, if you’re willing to follow the white rabbit, then take whatever color of pill you’re partial to, strap on your VR headset, and buckle up, because this is gonna get weird.
Revolt of the Sexless Angels
When knight-commander Simon de Montfort arrived in 1215 at the walls of the French city of Toulouse at the head of a crusader army, he was warned by an officer that they had no way to distinguish between the heretics they had come to subdue and the Catholic civilians in the city. “Kill them all,” he is purported to have replied. “The devil will know his own.”[1] This sort of brutality had by then become characteristic of the Albigensian Crusade, a twenty year struggle to eradicate a widespread heresy in the south of France that the Church considered a mortal threat to its existence.
Crusaders had found themselves fighting a protracted counter-insurgency campaign in the middle of Europe because, sometime in the 12th century, a cult belief system had arrived in the region from Bulgaria, taken root, and begun to spread like wildfire. Commonly known as the Cathars (or alternatively the Bougres, for “Bulgarians”), these believers not only totally rejected the authority of the Catholic hierarchy, but the whole notion that there was only one God
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Revolt of the Sexless Angels
When knight-commander Simon de Montfort arrived in 1215 at the walls of the French city of Toulouse at the head of a crusader army, he was warned by an officer that they had no way to distinguish between the heretics they had come to subdue and the Catholic civilians in the city. “Kill them all,” he is purported to have replied. “The devil will know his own.”[1] This sort of brutality had by then become characteristic of the Albigensian Crusade, a twenty year struggle to eradicate a widespread heresy in the south of France that the Church considered a mortal threat to its existence.
Crusaders had found themselves fighting a protracted counter-insurgency campaign in the middle of Europe because, sometime in the 12th century, a cult belief system had arrived in the region from Bulgaria, taken root, and begun to spread like wildfire. Commonly known as the Cathars (or alternatively the Bougres, for “Bulgarians”), these believers not only totally rejected the authority of the Catholic hierarchy, but the whole notion that there was only one God
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