{"id":61878,"date":"2019-01-04T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61878"},"modified":"2019-01-04T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:17:11","slug":"kill-them-all-said-the-abbot-and-saddam-said-much-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61878","title":{"rendered":"Kill them all, said the Abbot, and Saddam said much the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; personally, i don&#8217;t at all mind the fact that both saddam and the abbot are no longer around, given the brutality of their acts ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Saddam reveals himself {upper panel] to be plausibly mediaeval [lower panel]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/QUO-dq-caedite-eos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/QUO-dq-caedite-eos.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/QUO-dq-caedite-eos-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nHe also puts himself in the judgment seat the Abbot reserves for God&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The massacre of B\u00e9ziers, and the Albigensian Crusade of which it was the opening salvo, came about, I&#8217;d suggest, fundamentally because the good people of Languedoc &#8212; home of the Troubadours as well as the Cathars or Albigensians &#8212; found the leaders of the Cathars, known as the <em>Perfecti<\/em>, to be humbler, poorer, and less ostentatious than the Abbots and Bishops, leaders of the Catholic Church, who tended to be among the &#8220;fat cats&#8221; of their day.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, the Church disliked this almost unavoidable comparison, but was unwilling to relinquish its personal and institutional wealth &#8212; hence the Abbot&#8217;s instruction, Kill them all, God will sort out his own, which somehow made the massacre tolerable, theologically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading<\/strong>, for the Cathars:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Le Roy Ladurie<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Montaillou-Promised-Emmanuel-Roy-Ladurie\/dp\/0807615986\">Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error<\/a><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; personally, i don&#8217;t at all mind the fact that both saddam and the abbot are no longer around, given the brutality of their acts ] . Saddam reveals himself {upper panel] to be plausibly mediaeval [lower panel]: He also puts himself in the judgment seat the Abbot reserves for God&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,1419,627,52,51,1039,367,19,1553,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-crusades-crusaders","category-doublequotes","category-france","category-history","category-medieval","category-military-history","category-recommended-reading","category-saddam","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61889,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61878\/revisions\/61889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}