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Thew
@Thew

I know it's the basic nerd answer but personally I still gotta go with gnosticism

absolutely the funniest possible solution to christianity's internal contradictions

imagine trying to resolve the whole "christians say god is both ontologically good and infinitely powerful, so how can all this suffering exist" problem, but instead of concluding "god isn't real" or "christian doctrine isn't true" and leaving the church, you go "okay hear me out: Literally everything in the bible is factually true and correct, it's just that GOD IS THE VILLAIN"

10/10 galaxy brain theology. gets you killed by absolutely everyone in europe. directly leads to a bunch of really weird but highly respected japanese cartoons like 700 years later


zeroefficiency
@zeroefficiency
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Anschel
@Anschel

I mean, hands down my favorite heresy is Christianity. You're telling me Moshiach, who is also G-d, and also his own son, utterly fails to restore the righteous kingdom and is in fact killed but comes back(?) but still doesn't really accomplish anything. Gotta appreciate the sheer audacity there


ChaiaEran
@ChaiaEran

Continuing in that vein, my favourite heresy is one that I don't think has a name? The Talmud refers to it as Ta'anat HaMinin, with "minin" meaning "heretics", but it's the belief formulated by Irenaeus that only the Ten Commandments were given at Sinai, rather than the whole of the Torah, and it's the way that Christianity reconciled its rejection of the mitzvot with its keeping of the Tanach as scripture.


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I like all the fourth and fifth century heresies that consist entirely of having a slightly different view on the exact nature of the trinity just because it seems so insanely petty to the modern mind. declaring people heretics and banishing them to the east because they said jesus was of two natures, one human and one divine, or of one nature, wholly divine, rather than the obviously correct answer of one nature that is both human and divine

oh yeah good answer lol

there's a whole effortpost somebody could make about how, like, american evangelicals have this totalizing complex about how they've always been/always are Persecuted. And then you go look at the historical periods they cite and instead of systematic anti-christian prejudice it's all shit like this. eight hundred different regional groups all calling themselves true christians all burning each other at stakes simultaneously lol

I'm not very spiritual, and not very religious, but lemme tell you, gnosticism has always captured me, and I would have TOTALLY fallen to that heresy if it was a more common thing in like, the modern age. And also if I had actually been raised Christian lol

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