Beziers

Beziers – an ancient Gallic fortress now a city in southern France.

The atrocity of Beziers in Languedoc in the 12th century by the Holy Roman Crusade, led by Simon de Montfort, in which 20000 Cathars, men, women, children, were summarily slaughtered under the auspices of Pope Innocent III, make the sins of the Third Reich pale into almost benign proportion. »Kill them all,« the Crusaders were told, »God will know his own.« How about that for paternalistic religious chauvinism, Pope John Paul II? Has any of your predecessors or yourself ever considered apologizing to the descendants--if any--of those so atrocitied?

Being able to relieve oneself of waste, either liquid or solid, has always been a tremendous satisfaction, and having this website as a sort of intellectual toilet, by being able to relieve oneself of all this mental anguish, sturm, drang und dreck, is a very Cathartic experience. Almost like the consolomente bestowed upon the people by the Perfect of the Cathar »religion.«
Thank you, now if you only provided toilet paper...