The Vatican Christ

 By 400AD the plains of Provence had already been Christianized. Convents and Basilicas had been built over the ruins of pagan temples, making well use of their stones and columns Relics of the martyrs of the new doctrine were deposited in these churches.

 By becoming saints the martyrs became more acceptable to the pagans, who were accustomed to numerous gods and semi-gods. Only the Druids in the Pyrenees continued their sacrifices to Abellio, their “god of light”, which had nothing to do with other persecutions or cruelties. 

 This divinity had not created the world nor the creatures that inhabited it.The Judeo-Roman christologists preached it but could not make any inroads with these spiritualists.  Since the church couldn’t convert these pagans it osterized them by becoming more materialistic and opulent before exterminating them.

 For the Druids a Christ emerging from the house of the murderous adulterous King David appeared as a contradiction.  The Christ who died on the cross could never be the divinity of light.  A God cannot die, and would never allow others to kill in his name, because they differed with his views.

 Persecuted and cursed, the Druids were confined to the mountain tops and deepest caves, praising the Holy Father, according to their ancient  and Holy custom. 

 The Christians came to the Pyrenees. They were persecuted by their brothers, who declared them heretics, in the councils of Saragossa and Bordeaux in 380AD.  

 Their leader Priscillian was tortured and killed in 380AD by the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus, himself a convert to Christianity, and Bishop Itacius.

 The Gnostic Priscillian were welcomed by the Druids and it was they who eventually converted the Druids to Christianity. Their new homeland was in the Sarralunga forest  between Sarbarth’es and Olmes, in the mountain range of Saint Bartholomew’s Peak .  

 From the Druids, the Priscillians, the bards and the Troubadours  the  Cathars were born.

 The Cathars taught that  God is a Spirit.  That love is absolute, perfect in itself, immutable, eternal and just.  Nothing evil or transitory can exist in it or come from it.  Its works can only be perfect, immutable, eternal, just as pure in the end as the fountain from which they flow. 

 This world is made up of imperfect matter and Gods Perfection.  A world of misery and a God who is love itself. Between creatures who are only born to die, and a God who is eternal life. 

 The Cathers came to conclude that there is an incompatibility between what is perfect and what isn’t.  A cause and effect if you will.  If the cause is immutable , so are the effects.  If the cause or the world is the work of a good God, then why was it not made perfect like himself. 

 If he wanted to make it perfect and couldn’t, then it is obvious that he is neither all powerful nor perfect.  If he could have made it perfect and didn't want to, he would have a conflict with the perfection of love. Therefore for the Cathars, God did not create the terrestrial world! 

 Could God be happy with so much disorder and confusion in the world.  How is it that all of Gods creatures, who seem to concentrate on torture and terrorizing others, could come from a perfect creator, of pure kindness. 

 How can the fires, floods, earthquakes volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters which make the poor homeless, destroy the crops that feed his people, and kill and or destroy thousands of families, be created from a God of perfection? 

 For those who seek truth, it is hard to ascribe these events to a perfect and all powerful God. The God that our enemies  use to justify our destruction. 

 These were the thoughts of the Albigensian Cathars. How could a perfect God have created man whose ultimate destiny was death after being tortured by all types of evils?

The fundamental opposition between good and evil is found in Mazdaism, Druidism, and Pythagorean philosophy and now Catharism and is known as the "Dualist system."

 The predecessor of Catholicism  the Church of Rome was very much apposed to this theology as they supported the all powerful and all knowing and one and only True God. 

 Any theology that didn't support or questioned the dogma was deemed heretical and would soon be dealt with by a cold horror that would sweep the land in the name of Christ, but not the Christ of history but the Vaticans Christ!