The problem with studying Catholic heresies is that they litreally made a hobby out of inventing fully realised heretical theologies in order to accuse each other of subscribing to them. Basically every single one comes with a big asterisk noting that it’s unclear whether anyone ever actually believed this, or whether some random theologian just made up a guy to get mad at – and the worst part is that you absolutely cannot tell just from looking at them, because the heresies we do have evidence of actual practice for are, if anything, even weirder. Like, the guys who thought Jesus was a hologram were 100% real, so you can’t rule anything out!
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- Rampant bad-faith interpretation
- Entire debating strategies built around weaponising community standards by tricking your opponent into saying forbidden words
- Public callouts which have catastrophic consequences for random bystanders while leaving their intended targets mostly unscathed
- Complex moral questions rendered impossible to discuss by semantic quibbling
- Human Pet Guy is there