by default, you are forced to balance adversities on you, and in the process you create new adversities, so you go nowhere. Jesus solved this problem and says don't balance your enemies with adversity. The Buddha too teaches not to get off the middle ground. So your enemies bolden up against...
the Albigenses aka Catharists were a 12th century gnostic Christian sect, that the Catholics exterminated for their money and influence. But what made so many people join them to begin with? Because they had all the Christian books, not only the ones that the conclave of Nicea sanctioned into...