Despite my username I was raised in about the most Trad of all TradCath households you can imagine. AMA. Save me from being #14 in line at this cursed job audition

    • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      What heresies are you referring to? Gnosticism and Arianism and the like all predate Catholicism by a couple centuries.

        • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Gnosticism is one of those tendencies that kind of merged Judaism, early Christianity and polytheism in a much more fluid way than post-Nicaea 2 orthodoxy. I honestly don't know too much about it except that it was declared heretical several times over and may have also partly inspired Sufism, which is pretty neat.

            • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              One can hope, but I'm not sure. When Spain began colonizing the Carribean and what is now Latin America, there was a lot of syncretism there too between the Catholics and the indigenous belief systems. A few monks in New Spain even commented in their journals how similar the natives' bloodletting rituals were to Catholic Eucharistic sacrament.

              With early Capitalism already pumping gas into the colonial engine, I don't know if a Gnostic Spain would have been acted any better.

                • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Hey, me too. There was one book I remember reading about a world where Christianity never replaced Roman Polytheism, but I forget the title. Basic outline of the world was that there was little-to-no gender discrimination, but slavery was still legal.

        • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Hussites - Branch Davidians, but with slavs

          Bogomils - don't know anything about them

          Fraticelli - based

          Cathars - based but also just wannabe Manichaeans

            • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Just being facetious, really. But they were followers of a charismatic leader who had bones to pick with the religious authorities of the time, had a streak of nationalism running through them, and were involved in armed conflict over defense of their sect.

              Holy shit I just realized I mixed up Heaven's Gate with the Branch Davidians. My bad, I am dumb.