I would like to point out that the heresy of Donatism gets stigmatized by Augustinians (who won the war) as "You have to be a 100% perfect person and if you're not you might as well just die" Really it's just "If you sold out the cause you don't get to be a leader in it"
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You can probably come up with some memetic evolution theory for why Athanasianism won the original doctrinal war, like the fact that the Trinity is this weird logical paradox makes it much more effective as an article of faith to build an identity around
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Broke: trinitarianism Woke: arianism Bespoke: Valentinianism.
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It feels like if you're a Christian from antiquity the only reason not to be Arian is because you really like Jesus a lot Like, I haven't read the gospels but I'm pretty sure Jesus never actually says "I'm God, I made the earth, you gotta worship me, specifically"
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Yeah, or because you didn't like Arius (or more generally, the faction he was a part of)
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Oh yeah - and I mean, the Protestant Reformation reinvented it a few times; Newton was accused of being an Arianist at certain points.
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