Now that is an interesting statement. I think it's worth dissecting a little.
Your amusement at the situation aside, the inference that your opinion ought to be acknowledged on the grounds of a superior education is noted.
That the beliefs of the Cathars and Albigenses were heresy because your opinion is educated... Noted. However, I must also note that said education came from the victors, the Catholic Church itself, so cannot in all fairness to those thousands of victims ( the entire city of Toulouse decimated), be considered an unbiased or impartial witness. Do you have any evidence from reliable independent sources at to the beliefs and practices if those people? It must also be noted that if marriage and the birth of children was so frowned upon, why bother killing them? One generation and they would self immolate would they not? Anyway, back to your post... To your inference that there are some who think those purported heresies are in actual fact, Christian beliefs. Please cite just one example of a person claiming that pregnancy is a great evil and a Christian concept.
Albigenses: Beliefs and Practices
Officially known as heretics, they were actually
Cathari , Provençal adherents of a doctrine similar to the Manichaean dualistic system of material evil and spiritual good (see
Manichaeism ;
Bogomils ). They held the coexistence of these two principles, represented by God and the Evil One, light and dark, the soul and the body, the next life and this life, peace and war, and the like. They believed that Jesus only seemed to have a human body.
The Albigenses were extremely ascetic, abstaining from flesh in all its forms, including milk and cheese. They comprised two classes, believers and Perfect, the former much more numerous, making up a catechumenate not bound by the stricter rules observed by the Perfect. The Perfect were those who had received the sacrament of
consolamentum, a kind of laying on of hands. The Albigenses held their clergy in high regard. An occasional practice was suicide, preferably by starvation; for if this life is essentially evil, its end is to be hastened.
They had enthusiasm for proselytizing and preached vigorously. This fact partly accounted for their success, for at that time preaching was unknown in ordinary parish life. In the practice of asceticism as well, the contrast between local clergy and the Albigenses was helpful to the new sect.
https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/religion/other/misc/albigenses/beliefs-and-practices
NOT A CATHOLIC SOURCE.
Albigensians believed in a dualist philosophy. In this philosophy, the universe was clearly divided into two Gods or forces. One of these was the force of evil, namely Satan, who represented all that was chaotic and material in the world. Consequently, the world and the humans were also believed to have been created by Satan.
In contrast, the good God was free from the taints of material and carnal manifestations. More simply, the Albigensians held the God of the Old Testament as the Satan and that of the New Testament as the good God. They also opposed all violence and warfare, and believed that inside the essentially evil human bodies, the spirits of the angels dwelled who were trapped in their flesh cages.
The Albigensians disagreed with the Catholic Church on many vital points. Among these was their belief that the eucharist was not the body of the Christ. They also did not believe in the practice of baptism by water. This latter was apparently because they believed that water, as material, was essentially a manifestation of the power of evil...
...in the early 13th century, Pope Innocent III attempted to diminish the influence of the Albigensians, also called Cathars, in the regions of southern France. His diplomatic efforts met with little success and
one of his papal legates participating in them was murdered. He then took up the cause of a Crusade against the Albigensians and was successful in persuading the leading French nobles to support it.
http://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-life/medieval-religion/albigensians/
NOT A CATHOLIC SOURCE
Celibacy for
perfecti – celibacy was also encouraged generally since it was thought that every person born was just another poor soul trapped by the devil in a body. Marriage overall was discouraged.
- Suicide (known as the ritual of endura) as a rational and dignified response under certain conditions.
Earlier heresies such as Arianism, while still condemned, at least adhered to the same essential dogma of the Church; the Cathars rejected and repudiated every aspect of the Church, including most of the books of the Bible. Scholar Malcolm Barber notes:
They believed that the devil was the author of the Old Testament except these books: Job, the Psalms, the books of
Solomon [Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon], The Book of
Jesus son of Sirach [better known as the Book of Ecclesiasticus], of Isaiah, Ezekiel, David, and of the twelve prophets. (93)
Cathars
NOT A CATHOLIC SOURCE
brokelite, you want to call these heretics Christians, go ahead. You offer NO sources other than the standard hate propaganda and false histories your sect is well known for.