My understanding is that modern academics studying Catharism take these claims with a large rock of salt. We have no Cathar writings, just the writings of thos

My understanding is that modern academics studying Catharism take these claims with a large rock of salt. We have no Cathar writings, just the writings of those of their enemies. These enemies saw them as being in the mold of ancient heretics, with strange Christologies and Gnostic beliefs. But more likely they were just a run of the mill anticlerical movement.