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Religion

muriel_volestrangler

(106,476 posts)

4. Taiping? No, it was religious, for the leaders

Reply to rug (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 06:42 AM

Feb 2013

Followers may have been poor, but the driving force was religious.

The Cathar opposition to war, capital punishment and marriage stemmed from their religion. It might have, eventually, attracted the attention of the secular authorities, but the pope got there first, and ordered the war.

If you think you don't have to make a case about al Qaeda, then you are giving up on your own thread. What a waste of time, for all of us.