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> "[The Marcionites] were perhaps the most dangerous foe Christianity has ever known"

Catholic encyclopedia on "Marcionites": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm

Stumbled upon this from people posting about other heresies and was thinking more reading about heresies might be helpful for people to understand and avoid error
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devotech2 on scored.co
1 day ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 1 child
Arianism was honestly probably a larger threat. Despite the fact that it didn't have a super ecclesiastical structure and it wasn't a mirror of the catholic church, arianism was the religion of the inheritors of the western Roman empire until they were conquered and converted by belisaurius. The visigoths converted to nicene christianity on their own. If neither of those two things happened, Latin rite catholicism might just be extinct. We would only have the byzantine rite left, and there would not be an orthodox church as we know it, because the Latin church to schism from would largely be defunct and the position of the pontifex maximus as bishop of Rome would be rendered null and void. The ostrogoths did not actively seek to destroy the catholic church, however there's no guarantee that the tolerance would have continued, and there's no guarantee that the population of Italy wouldn't have converted on their own to copy the rich and powerful as people tend to do.

Nowadays though we have judaizers in control of the strongest (well, that's debatable now) country on earth. This has a myriad of consequences that we already see every day. This is the most dangerous heresy.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
NoDelousingThisTime on scored.co
1 day ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Arianism and Nestorianism, then you could mention the Roman church breaking out of Orthodoxy if you actually care about them, which OPs link seem to do.
disoriented on scored.co
1 day ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 2 children
One man's heresy is another man's orthodoxy. I'm inclined to Marcionism because it's the oldest form of Christianity known, before misguided Christians, and especially converted jews, began to interpret the preach the new faith according to their own beliefs and preferences.

Remember, in every conflict there are two sides. The Catholic Encyclopedia only gives the Catholic perspective. The Marcionite version is quite different and sheds a lot of light on why they believe the way they do. In particular, it has everything to do with rejecting jews and refusing to accept infiltration of jewish beliefs into the Christian faith.
bluewhiteandred on scored.co
1 day ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
> it has everything to do with rejecting jews and refusing to accept infiltration of jewish beliefs into the Christian faith

if this is your motivation, users like crusaderpepe are frequently posting against "Jewish errors" from a Catholic perspective; hence you could be Catholic and oppose certain Jewish errors

> The Catholic Encyclopedia only gives the Catholic perspective.

Naturally, although I can see why people might independently side with Catholicism, as Marcionism proposes:

Two different gods (one of Old Testament, one of New); the teaching Jesus only appeared to be human (docetism); matter is inherently evil contrary to Genesis 1:31 that all that God made was "good" (like Manicheanism); Gnostic tendencies of salvation through secret knowledge, rather than through faith and works.
Breadpilled on scored.co
1 day ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
I always found Marcionism to be the most lucid Christian "heresy" by a significant margin. Demiugical ontology explains reality way more cleanly than the "good god who demands foreskins in the OT and orchestrates evil" that you're left with in lieu of it.

But there are so many different modern and historical interpretations of this stuff that Christianity necessarily has some agnosticism baked into it for anyone who engages seriously with the whole library. Trying to figure out the single, narrow, exclusively "correct" school of theology is like going on fanfiction.net, reading the entire body of work for a popular IP, and then having to independently decide which author has "the canon" interpretation of the source material. All with you never having accessed that source material yourself nor having any way to do so.
Hematomato on scored.co
1 day ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
To be fair, "This is a brand new god" does make a lot more sense than "God woke up one morning and decided to change his entire nature, so he sacrificed himself to himself so he could do that."
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