Lili Zografou
ANTI-KNOWLEDGE;
CAPITALISM’S CRUTCHES
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....The fate of the European regions that initially tried to resist or emancipate themselves from the clutches of papal totalitarianism is well known:
“...It happened then that a local governor of the Pope who ruled Provence as if it were a hostile occupied country was assassinated.
This gave Innocent (the Pope) the excuse he was looking for and of course he did not let the opportunity escape him. He called for a real crusade against the Albigenses and the Waldensians. Those who agreed to take part in it for forty days, they would be exempted from the imposition of interest on their debts, they would be granted absolution for all their past and future sins and, also, for as long as they lived they would not be subject to the jurisdiction of the common courts. (...) When the city of Béziers was conquered, the soldiers asked themselves: “How shall we distinguish the heretics from the other people?” Finding no answer, they turned to the Pope’s envoy who was following them in the capacity of spiritual advisor.
— My children, replied to them that holy man, go forward and leave no one alive. When they appear before the Lord, He will distinguish those faithful to him.”
“Since the time the holy gospel has been given to us, all other research is superfluous.”
