Comments on: REVIEW: Relics by Pip Vaughan-Hughes http://ticon4.com/2008/12/review-relics-by-pip-vaughan-hughes/ for your imagination Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:19:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Brad Hoffsetter http://ticon4.com/2008/12/review-relics-by-pip-vaughan-hughes/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Brad Hoffsetter Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:49:45 +0000 http://ticonderogaonline.com/ticon4/?p=47#comment-3 We have said it once, we have said it a thousand times...Vaughan-Hughes has an unquestionable skill as a fantasy writer. Readers must discern between an ascetic nonviolent pacifistic religious group of history versus the fantasy of "Captain de Montalhac and his surly crew of Cathar heretic pirates". The term "Cathars" derives from the Greek word Katheroi and means "Pure Ones". They were a gnostic Christian sect of simple living pacifists that arose in the 11th century, an offshoot of a small surviving European gnostic community that emigrated to the Albigensian region in the south of France. The medieval Cathar movement flourished in the 12th century A.D. throughout Europe until its virtual extermination at the Dominican directed hands of the Inquisition in 1245. Brad Hoffstetter Communications Division Assembly of good Christians www.cathar.net We have said it once, we have said it a thousand times…Vaughan-Hughes has an unquestionable skill as a fantasy writer. Readers must discern between an ascetic nonviolent pacifistic religious group of history versus the fantasy of “Captain de Montalhac and his surly crew of Cathar heretic pirates”.

The term “Cathars” derives from the Greek word Katheroi and means “Pure Ones”. They were a gnostic Christian sect of simple living pacifists that arose in the 11th century, an offshoot of a small surviving European gnostic community that emigrated to the Albigensian region in the south of France. The medieval Cathar movement flourished in the 12th century A.D. throughout Europe until its virtual extermination at the Dominican directed hands of the Inquisition in 1245.

Brad Hoffstetter
Communications Division
Assembly of good Christians
http://www.cathar.net

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