> > ...because of the supernatural guardianship of the > > Holy Ghost. > > turquoiseb: > Now that's curious. It makes me want to stand by my > earlier characterization of you as a closet Cathar... > Isn't that kind of insulting, calling a FFL informant a "Cathar" - what in hell is wrong with you, Turq?
This is just outrageous!!! Can't one of you moderators step in a put a stop to this? Do your job, Rick! "The name Cathar (often attributed to Greek or Latin roots meaning "cleansing" or "pure") probably comes from the word cat. Apparently twelfth-century enemies of the Cathars believed their rites included ritually kissing the anus of a cat, in which form Lucifer was said to appear. Toward the end of the twelfth-century, the Cathars were also slandered by the term "bougre", from "Bulgaria," known to be the source of their heresy. Later the word came to mean "sodomite" and is "the root of the British slang bugger and buggery" (193). Source: "The Templars and the Assasins" by James Wasserman Inner Traditions, 2001
