Cathars were 100% European.
…and the real reason why the Cathars got roasted was that they wanted to take some of the Jewishness out of Christianity. Thus displeasing the Jews. And the Marcionites before them dropped the Old Testament. Bad goy. Koresh went in the opposite direction, apparently claiming to be the christ (king) of the real, true Jews. Bad goy!
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That's because the US was founded by fanatical puritans that were kicked out of Europe for being religious freaks.
They then interbred until the religious freakness was magnified, and kill each other off whenever some of them out-nutjob the chief nutjobs.