Lies,

(Pictured: The execution of two Cathars)

So what do mainstream historical works say about the Albigensian Crusade? Let us take a casual survey.

In 1244, at Montségur, the holy place of Perfects, 200 recalcitrants were burned alive in one vast pyre.

(Europe, Norman Davies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996)

One has to wince at the use of the word recalcitrants. How sweetly Christian of you, Norman, to take a nasty little slap at people, 750 years gone, who, loyal to their faith unto death, chose to be burned by "good Christians" rather than renounce their faith. These ones who burned were the clergy of the Cathar Church, the Perfecti. Their faith had not been taken lightly, and recanting it was not an option for them. So, after, a siege of months, they finally capitulated, knowing full well the flames were waiting for them. These Perfecti, who enjoyed a reputation for morality and integrity far stronger than that of the Catholic clergy in Languedoc, were true to their faith, and, true to the Cathar perception that the Vatican was the seat of Satan on earth, the Vatican's soldiers destroyed the Cathar Perfecti with fire, the devil's chosen weapon.