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Thanks for the correction, I thought he'd been given that title when he was sent to "investigate".
Yes, the Albigensian Crusade has a lot we can learn from in the "war on terror", especially in the dehumanization of people to the point of torture and death, and how an institution that formerly championed the downtrodden turned and persecuted those it saw as an "existential threat". I don't think that many Americans are aware of it, that the Church turned on Europe itself in its rampage (although my understanding is that the King of France and the Earl of Leicester had much to do with it as well, something about the concept of ownership of land).
