I’ve been catching up on old posts via the podcast episodes, and I happened to listen to this one this morning. The timing was surely a Godsend, because my father-in-law is coming to a sad end to a three-year battle with cancer, and he is a ram like Saint Engelbert. There were several parts of Engelbert’s story that I felt like could just have easily been describing my father-in-law.
Nice post and interesting story. Personally, I have a lot of sympathy for the Cathars, who led a lifestyle corresponding to the aesthetic ideal. They were so popular that the Catholics had to launch a brutal crusade against them (a crusade which, to my understanding, the Cathars did not violently resist) and then burned as many as they could capture at the stake, followed by launching the Inquisition, and it still took a hundred years to fully snuff out... But this ultimately proved the point of the Cathars, did it not? That this world is controlled by a malevolent force, the Demiurge...
I’ve been catching up on old posts via the podcast episodes, and I happened to listen to this one this morning. The timing was surely a Godsend, because my father-in-law is coming to a sad end to a three-year battle with cancer, and he is a ram like Saint Engelbert. There were several parts of Engelbert’s story that I felt like could just have easily been describing my father-in-law.
Nice post and interesting story. Personally, I have a lot of sympathy for the Cathars, who led a lifestyle corresponding to the aesthetic ideal. They were so popular that the Catholics had to launch a brutal crusade against them (a crusade which, to my understanding, the Cathars did not violently resist) and then burned as many as they could capture at the stake, followed by launching the Inquisition, and it still took a hundred years to fully snuff out... But this ultimately proved the point of the Cathars, did it not? That this world is controlled by a malevolent force, the Demiurge...