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2. Don't you think that, from your article, the fact that many in the rebellion were impoverished and

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 06:58 PM

Feb 2013

that fact that a goal was to hold property in common had something to do with it?

Don't you think the Cathar opposition to war, capital punishment and marriage might have attracted the attention of the secular authorities?

I don't think I have to make a case about al Qaeda.

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'Ever'? I think it sometimes has been muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #1

Don't you think that, from your article, the fact that many in the rebellion were impoverished and rug Feb 2013 #2

Taiping? No, it was religious, for the leaders muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #4

For other wars, the motive is patriotism, nationalism or some other intangible ideal. rug Feb 2013 #6

It was the *pope's* perception of the beliefs muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #7

That was Abbot Almaric who led the army. rug Feb 2013 #8

Calling the Albigensian Crusade a civil war okasha Feb 2013 #9

No, it wasn't about Aquitaine/Gascony muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #10

Even the English Civil War Adsos Letter Feb 2013 #3

The Scottish part of the Civil Wars was more so muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #5

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