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Arianism

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    Heretical offshoot of Christianity
    Developed in the late 3rd century and early 4th
    Central premise was a rejection of the Trinity, holding that Jesus, though the Saviour and divine, was a created being and not equal or part of the Godhead
    Disappeared by the 6th or 7th century
    Promulgated by Arius, a priest from North Africa and spread to Germany by Ulfilas, a missionary.

Why they might be annoying:

    To believe what they believe is to believe that the rest of Christianity before and since was a mistake regarding Jesus.
    It was condemned by the first two major councils of the Church, Nicea in 325AD and Constantinople in 381AD.
    It was a part of the clashes in the late Roman Empire between the Catholic Romans and the Arian Germans.
    Some on both sides developed a compromise called semi-Arianism.
    Few of their writings have survived, most of what we know about them comes from their victorious opponents.
    Their beliefs about Jesus and the Trinity are similar to what the Jehovah Witness's and Unitarians believe today.

Why they might not be annoying:

    The Church and the papacy was never won over to their beliefs.
    Other than their non-Trinitarian beliefs, their theology was very much mainstream Christianity.
    Leaders on both sides condemned any violence that arose from the conflict preferring evangelism and if necessary exile for instrangient opponents.
    The conflict solidified and strengthened the beliefs of early Christianity.
    They never had any televangelists.
    Even his opponents credited Arius with being a devout and pious man.

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