--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-10-11T01:20:51' draft: false title: The Cathar religion was extinguished --- The Cathar religion was extinguished by 1230 by the brutal Albigensian crusade. But that hasn't stopped all kinds of wackos from [appropriating the Cathar name](http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4073193,00.html).