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KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT IT OUT- Arnaud Amalric (died 1225) was a Cistercian monk remembered for giving advice during the Albigensian Crusade to a soldier wondering how to distinguish the Catholic friendlies from the Cathar enemies to just "Kill them all. For the Lord knows them that are His." According to the Cistercian writer Caesar of Heisterbach, one of the leaders of the Crusader army, at the siege of Béziers in 1209, when asked by a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics, Arnaul Amalric supposedly answered: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His. This is the origin of the modern phrase, "Kill them all and let God sort them out."