CK2 has exposed me to the wonders of ultra-autist Christian sectarianism and I can't help but find it genuinely...

Bogomis ARE Paulicians

Another divide to look at are the council acceptances, the most important ones are Nicaea, Ephesus, and Chalcedon. You'd still probably find more divergence between Chalcedonian Protestants and Cathodox than between these and other classical denominations who don't recognize the creed.

>>catholicism
>>catharism
>>fraticellianism
>>waldensianism
>>lollardism
heretics
>>orthodoxy
the one, universal, apostolic word of god
>>miaphysitism
>>monophysitism
>>bogomilism
>>monothelitism
>>iconoclism
>>paulicianism
>>nestorianism
>>messalianism
heretics

>my one true church
Literally Cathshill tier

Schisms and heresies happen which separate people from the true universal church of Christ into a variety of different heretical or schismatic sects. Catharism/paulicianism/bogumilists are gnostic, waldesians/fraticellians/Lollards/ are western heretics which rejected apostolicity.
Nestorianism was a heresy which rejected Mary as mother of God and the christology that Christ was fully human and fully God. Iconoclasm was a heresy which said that all religious images were idolatrous and tried to destroy them in the Byzantine empire. Monothelites rejected the christological belief that Christ had 2 divine wills which correspond with his 2 natures. Although I don't think it's right that the game portrays the Maronites in ck2 as all being monothelites.

>People have slightly different opinions about theology that really don't matter in the grand scheme of things
>Wars and crusades based on these opinions cause massive amounts of suffering

Why did people care so much? If the other guys are wrong, they're going to hell, so just let them do what they want.

All denominations based on Nicene Christianity are inherently autistic.
If you want more elaborate explaination, Christianity and politics shouldn't mix, but thanks to Constantine the most powerhungry assholes around got to create the One Holy True Church™ and create retarded assumptions posing as the Truth™ (everything concerning nature of Yeshua and YHWH is just muh opinion) and declaring everyone who disagreed heretics/schismatics/apostates/reprobates. But it served it's purpose for a while, it united people. You can't have united people without one religion, and you can't have people believing in that religion when other faiths are more convincing, and you can have your faith more convincing if you literally make shit up.

It matters because it can cause large numbers of people to fall away if left unchecked. You can't just let a few people ruin millions of people.

Cathars are dualists, and believe that the entire fucking old testament is written by Satan. Also there is a "good" god that wrote the New Testament, and a "bad" god (Satan) that wrote the Old Testament.

Miaphysites are just retarded monophysites. Present-day Maronites are Miaphysites IIRC

Monophysites believe that Christ was both fully divine and fully human in ONE nature, whereas Nestorians believe that he was equal parts divine and human in ONE nature, and the Chalcedonians wanted it to be separately divine and separately human in TWO natures.

Iconoclasm is just the belief that you shouldn't show images of Christ, god, and other religious figures. Fuck the Isaurians.

Nestorianism is the belief that Christ is equal parts both human and divine, united in one half-divine, half-human nature. They're predominantly in Persia and the east.

>the unchanged meme graph
The weirdest thing is that no iteration of this infograph ever mentions oriental orthodoxy for some reason.

A Vandal magister with known Arian tendencies was holding a symposium in honour of Demophilus, a known schismatic.
"Before the toasts begin, you must get on your knees and worship God and accept that he was the most divine entity the ecumene has ever known, even greater than Christus whom he created!"

At this moment, a venerable Praepositus Limitis who had served on the frontiers for decades and understood the necessity of taming the Barbaricum and fully supported the creed promulgated by the great Constantinus rose from his couch and held up a crucifix.

"Who does this represent?"

The Rhenian cur smirked quite devilishly and smugly replied "the created child of an indivisible God"

"You miss the point. Jesus Christ our Dominus is of the same substance as God and thus equal to Him."

The heretic was visibly shaken, and dropped his wine krater and copy of Eusebius' Onomastikon. He stormed out of the banquet hall crying those laetus crocodile tears. The same tears Donatists and Priscillians cry for the "poor" (who today are so holy that saints vie to kiss their feet) as they flee Roman territory to the outrage-committing Bacaudae in Armorica. There is no doubt that at this point the "learned" Vandal wished he had studied the work of the Holy Apostles and become more than a ludicrous teacher of rhetoric. He wished so much that he had a spatha to disembowel himself with due to the shame but he had sold all the city's arms for Gaiseric's ransom pay!

The partygoers politely clapped and all ceased their apostasy that day and accepted Jesus as the true Son of God. An divine light suddenly shone into the room and blazed upon the bust of Augustine and the statue wept miraculously. The Nicene Creed was recited, and Jesus Monogenes himself descended and banished the barbarians to the hellish wastes beyond the limes.

The magister lost his tongue and was castrated the following day. He was exiled to Troesmis, far from from God's Light.

Praise Jesus Consubstantialis

Kek'd irl