banned christian sect   catharines from france 350-1000 a.d.?
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They were the Cathars (correct spelling will help you search Wikipedia - I won't do that for you).  They were a heretic sect of Christianiity that became extrremeely popular in southern France.   They  suffered greatly at the hands of the Inquisition, and were finally supprressed brutally in the Albigensian Crusade.
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Yes.  The current ban on marrage for priests stems from when individual priests held important political power in there local communities, and also held the right to land owned by the church.  This power and wealth would often find its way to his wife and children.\n\nToday this is not much of a issue in major christian based faiths.
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Yep, Coptic and Moronite Christians! PLus, you have to know that the country along with Syria have had an everlasting relation with France who exported, back in the time, its religion. It's exactly why here in the French West Indies, Guadeloupe, we have a regular immigration of Lebanese and Syrians who have a Saint to protect them: Saint Charbel.
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I don't know where you get your information from.  You have been misinformed.  There are some so called "Catholics" that are misguided, as well as many others.  I was raised and taught in Catholic schools.  Not once, did anyone ever suggest praising statues or worshiping anyone or anything other than (Jesus, Holy Spirit & the Father) Holy trinity = one God.  We believe in offering prayers for loved ones, and we believe that the Staints offer they're prayers for the living.  But if someone was to assume that Catholics are taught to worship anyone or anything other than God, they are sadly mistaken.  Statues, pictures, etc... are reminders of who are good examples of how to live as Christ did.  Just like having pictures of your children.  The pictures are NOT your children, but an image of your children.  you would feed, clothe or talk to the picture.  Being Cathoilic does not mean that you are out of touch with reality.
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I am not certain the two are linked, but if so, were probably done so by Christians, who had already made black cats bad luck through the creation of the witch, in order to stamp out all Pagan beliefs, which actually never fully occurred in Europe, especially in the northern European cultures.\nHowever, it is believed that Friday the 13 became unlucky, because that is the day the French King, (Philip, I believe) in need of money, swooped in and arrested the head of the Knights of Templar, who had, although they were monks, grown very wealthy and therefore were sitting ducks. Although reluctant, the Pope agreed and they were tortured until confessing to what some believe may have been actual worship of Sophia, the goddess of wisdom among other Roman Catholic nos nos. Of course if you are old enough to understand world events, you must realize torture does not get answers, it gets people to just answer whatever so as not to be tortured, so it is unlikely they were actually really guilty of anything other than having money desired by the King. And, as our current White House resident has just signed, returning us to the dark ages again, no writ of habeas corpus, I believe, but could be wrong, since I don't have dates in front of me, existed either.\nAt the time it was the equivalent to the government rounding up the business leaders of every corporation in the world. That's how big it was. And it occurred on Friday the 13, which is believed to be the origins of why this date is unlucky, because it was among the first although not the last time Christians would turn on their own.
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I say nonChristians can kiss my white Christian behind.  They say I cannot pray in school, yet set aside special prayer rooms for Ramadan.  Maybe Christians need to start car bombing and beheading folks.
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Catholocism was outlawed there for quite some time, but Catholics persisted.  Now, many Anglican parishes are joining the Catholic Church as whole parishes.  Let's hope and pray that the two can someday be reunited under the leadership of the successor of St. Peter.\n\nBy the way, Henry VII remained a Catholic all his life -- it was Henry VIII who broke away from the Church -- and it was in the 1600's, not the 1800's.
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Catholic bishops, a long time ago.  It was more that they decided which books would NOT be in the Bible!
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they are criminals and hypocrites....they wouldnt allow sacred symbols of other relgions in their country....just try to land in saudia arabia with a crucifix or a bible and see what they will do to you.....and instead these morons come to christian countries and want to upset the social setup of the host country....by removing crucifixes from public places or by asking funds to build mosques.....i had already answered a similar question.....
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the templar knights were the ones that protected and found holy relics.  i know somewhere a few of the disbanded templars' familys later formed the free masons, but ive never heard of the bilterburgers.
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It used to be the Franciscan Monestary. (St. Antonius?) It was offically 'evacuated' on Feb 6, 1802.
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the burning times, when they burnt witches at the steak.\n\nthe crusades. (pretty much againse everyone)\n\nlook at their treatment of the Picts and gauls when the Holy Roman empire took over the British islands. \nthey had to build a wall acrost Britan to keep the picts out of roman occupied space. (Hadrians Wall)\n\nSalem witch trials. \n\nthe destruction of Sacred Druidic groves and the construction of Abby's and Churches on the same sites. \n\nthe Demonising of all of the Pagan gods. the Christian devil is a deranged mix and match of many or the more popular Pagan Gods. \n\nthe destruction of colture and the assimilation of holidays.\nChristmas, easter, and halloween are christian holidays that were placed on top of Pagan holy days in a direct attempt to substitute the colture. \n\nlook at the horrible things that they did to the Native Americans when they got here. they lied to them, cheated them. and then tried to exterminate them. they smashed and burnt sacred lodges and killed thousands. \n\neven today they are trying to have their beliefs forced on everyone else by trying to legislate their religion as a law of man.\n\nlook at all of the Christian political pressure to ban gay marriage and abortion. \n\nis this enough or do you need dates and places, e-mail me if you do.
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do youself a favor and let sleeping dog's lye.  Stay away from the knights templar.  don't get involved with something you wouldn't understand.
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The Orthodox churches, Roman Catholicism, and the major Protestent denominations.  Any sects started in the last two centuries would not be considered mainline.
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In 1408 a czech guy named Huss protested against the catholic church saying it had strayed from the letter of the law, ET is an allegory for the life of Christ (yeah, I'm not kidding). Maybe there could be a connection there? Good luck,
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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/specials/turban.htm\n\n"Forty-three students, including three Sikh boys, have been expelled from their schools in France after refusing to comply with a new law outlawing religious insignia in state-run educational institutions, officials said today."\n\nNot much in the news, it looks like people have learned to accept it.  Just like many controversial laws on the books in many countries.\n\nLaicite means secular