 Love and gratitude to the awesome Rev. Jimmy Dale Worley for the opportunity to premier this talk at his HOUSE, where my many limitations are overlooked by loving and supportive friends... my talk has improved a bit since then. It was a great blessing to roll this talk out on my mother Colleen's birthday as she introduced me to Buddhism, Hinduism and various metaphysical topics before I was ten!
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 Thank you to Kimberly Heck, the Spiritual leader at Unity of Mt. Pleasant for the opportunity to spend some time with her little flock!
 Thank you to my gracious friends at Unity Christ Church of Myrtle Beach for allowing me to speak before a dyn-o-mite SEE week! The lavender of the poster was to match their great website: http://unitymyrtlebeach.org/
 It was a pleasure to speak at my home church, Unity of Hilton Head 05/15/16
 Thanks to Naomi Frost-Hewitt to speak at her warm and engaged congregation 06/26/16.
 My beloved Christina has given us a timely new meme which I was moved to turn into a bumper sticker. I received them in the mail yesterday and put one on my truck today! PLEASE share this sentiment widely and if you would like a bumpersticker yourself you can order them from the SUPPORT tab above.
How many of you are familiar with “Kill them all and let God sort them out.” This “motto” became popular during the Vietnam War among American Special Forces troops. My beloved C’s bachelors degree was in medieval history and she was aware that the phrase’s origin was in the Crusades waged in France against the Albigensians, who came to be more widely known as the Cathars. They were Christians, but they rejected the authority of the Pope and other key aspects of Catholicism, so they were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church. On July 22, 1209, in the French town of Beziers, as they were celebrating the annual Feast of Mary Magdalene when suddenly the festivities were cut short when an army of “Crusaders” sent by Pope Innocent III showed up outside the walls of the town. The military leader of the army was Simon de Montfort, a French nobleman highly motivated by the Pope’s promise that he could keep the land of any heretics he killed. The Crusaders were accompanied by an official representative of the Pope, a French Cistercian monk named Arnaud Amalric. According to accounts as the attack began, a soldier asked Amalric how they would be able to tell which Beziers townspeople were Catholics and which were Cathars. Amalric supposedly answered (in French): “Kill them all. God will recognize his own.” |
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