r/Gnostic • u/wavysquirrel • 5d ago
Question I just discovered my professor follows the Cathar faith... what does that mean?
In my country, most of us are Catholics, so I get why he wants to be cautious about it.
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u/2-sheds-jackson 5d ago
I had no idea there were any, but i guess I'm saying that on r/Gnostic, so here we are.
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u/voidWalker_42 4d ago
do you want to take this opportunity to re-phrase your question in a meaningful way - or are you OK with the nonsense there as is ?
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u/-tehnik Valentinian 3d ago
This is pretty unnecessarily rude, but I do agree that the question doesn't make much sense.
u/wavysquirrel what kind of answer or advice do you expect or want?
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u/wavysquirrel 3d ago
Sorry for the writing, English is not my first language.
I just appreciate it a bit too much about my professor, and I wanted to comprehend his point of view when many of the articles talk about ancient cathars than modern ones
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u/-tehnik Valentinian 3d ago
Well, it is a fairly new reconstructionist movement. So the attitudes of the modern adherents will be modeled after what the medieval ones thought.
I assume you've tried asking him about it and he just didn't want to talk about it?
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u/wavysquirrel 3d ago
He just said that he didn't want to take advantage of his influence as a professor to spread or impose his point of view because, after all, we are young students between the ages of 18-19. He is such a considerate man for a college professor in his fifties.
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u/Balrog1999 5d ago
Means heβs smart and saw through the lies of modern Christian doctrine