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To: Doctor Stochastic
The Christians doing the killing justified the slaughter of other Christians of Beziers with the above pharse.

Do you have an authoritative citation for this? By authoritative, I mean any actual scholarly work (refereed academic article, book authored by a degreed historian, etc.) that sets about estabilishing this phrase originating at that point in time. I sincerely doubt that this is the origin of the phrase: "Kill them all and let God sort them out." I am prepared to be further educated, but it does not ring true.

20 posted on 11/02/2001 7:26:21 AM PST by valhallasone
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To: valhallasone
Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars

The book is mentioned on the web page for "Christianity Today" but I don't know what POV the web page comes from.

25 posted on 11/02/2001 9:05:23 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: valhallasone
If I recall correctly, the actual phrase, in translation, is "Kill them all. God will know His own."

It was uttered by the Bishop commanding (!) a siege during the Albigensian Crusade, when confronted by one of his subordinate commanders who questioned the wisdom of torching an entire town that held orthodox believers as well as Cathars.

28 posted on 11/02/2001 9:48:08 AM PST by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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