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    Boy's Guard Senior Member LeftEyeNine's Avatar
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    Default Re: "Heretic" Sects ?

    Shi'ites and Sunnis can not be counted "heretic", can they ?

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    Well I'm pretty sure that Sunni is an overwhelming majority, and has been that way Sunni Islam's history. Sunni is the following the path of Muhammad, while Shi'ites are the followers of Ali. Shi'ites originally formed after Ali's assassination, and believe that the direct heirs of Muhammad through his cousin Ali and daughter Fatima are unfalliable. The imam system came this way whether it be 12 imams or 9 or 7.

    As for hereticalness...I think the bulk Shi'ites are considered within Islam, though deviant (by Sunnis). Some small groups (like Ismailis) are considered outside Islam.

    By the way, for an MTW timeline, it would be great to put the Fatimids and the Assassins as extremist political groups (both are splintered from Shi'ites I think).

    As for Christianity, I don't really see anything except the Catholic/Orthodox Schism in the timeline, though you could mention the Babylonian Captivity...
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    Hussites, Cathars, Pelagianism, Arianism, Lollards, Bogomils, Manichaeism, Nestorianism, Waldensians are the best known Christian ones that I can think of offhand.

    The Franciscans would have been if they hadn't have got the pope on their side.

    Well, the Orthodox churches maintain that Catholics are schismatic heretics (which they are, technically, I suppose) whilst the Catholics maintain that Protestants are heretics (which they are).

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    Technicly, protestants are no longer "heretics" to the Catholic Church but "separated brothers in Christ". This was decided in a relatively recent council, don't remember wich one though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
    Technicly, protestants are no longer "heretics" to the Catholic Church but "separated brothers in Christ". This was decided in a relatively recent council, don't remember wich one though.

    damn hippies



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    I'm a Heretic.

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    Isn't christianism a sect of judaism in the first place ?

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