Cathars and Quakers
Kris Misselbrook considers the similarities between two dissenting religious societies
Cathars and Quakers both grew from a strong desire to find a personal spiritual reality. This, in many ways, reflected that of the earliest Christians and was not found in the orthodox church. Both met with persecution. It is more a product of their different historical times that the Cathars were ruthlessly eradicated in the twelfth century while the Quakers survived persecution in the seventeenth and continue today.
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