Two Branches of Christianity: Fomenko vs. Paradigm Threat

This note attributes claims correctly. Anything not quoted from Fomenko/chronologia should not be attributed to him.

What Fomenko (chronologia) describes

On How it was — section on the two branches and related pages, Fomenko distinguishes:

Label (Fomenko)	He associates it with…
Royal / Ancestral Christianity	The religion of Christ's kin and the ruling house — they honor Christ as divine but also treat themselves as holy by blood relation. Tied to readings where pharaonic and Olympic pantheons mirror a god-king court.
Apostolic Christianity	The movement of disciples and common people — no royal bloodline, refusal to worship living emperors as gods, and (in his narrative) many of the first martyrs. The later institutional church's claim to be "Apostolic" implies there was another Christianity to distinguish itself from.
Tension	He frames a long conflict: Royal line → strands that look like polytheistic / Gnostic elaboration; Apostolic line → threads leading toward Judaism, Catholicism, Islam (as redacted history presents them). Circumcision and Paul's Judaizers sit in that fight — one side insisting on old covenant marks, the other (Paul) resisting bondage.

That is Fomenko's map. He does not, in the material summarized above, describe the Istanbul church as a pre-Christ Atlantis resurfacing or spell out ritual function as food, money, and chattel slavery under an invisible deity — those are later syntheses.

What Paradigm Threat adds (author timeline — not Fomenko)

The Revolution Despite Christ's Martyrdom article relabels Fomenko's poles for narrative clarity:

1. Institutional "Apostolic" (the line that claims succession from the twelve) is read here as continuity with the church already in Istanbul before Christ — same ritual deep structure through the Dark Ages, whatever the origin story (this timeline links that pattern to Atlantis-era control as author thesis).
2. Ritual function (author): unchanged core — systems over food and money, human beings held as property, worship of an invisible creator mediated by priests. That is framed as Deep State religious apparatus trying to resurface after each disruption — not a claim extracted from Fomenko's two-branch essay.
3. "Royal" Christianity in Fomenko's sense (blood kin of Christ) is not what the timeline now calls Royal in the popular sense: here royal = the people's king — Christ honored as king without palace genealogy; Davidic bloodline as retrofit; Rus as locus of resistance to that retrofit.
4. First Crusade deaths (author vs Fomenko): Fomenko's wider narrative still treats early apostolic Christianity as producing martyrs (refusal of emperor worship, etc.). The author explicitly rejects calling the Istanbul / Judaizer / temple figures killed in Crusader revenge martyrs. They are read as people who knew themselves guilty of the crucifixion crime, repented, and faced peasant/mob justice — execution without martyrdom. A martyr would die affirming that Christ deserved the cross; no such testimony is cited. See Revolution Despite Christ's Martyrdom and First Crusade.

Cross-links

• Timeline chapter intro: 12th c. Birth of Christianity
• Brother on the Cross
• Giants, Infantry, Guerrilla, Children's Crusade — military lexicon vs giant-line narrative; appendix

When editing timeline articles, cite Fomenko only for Fomenko's branch definitions; prefix author-only claims (Atlantis ritual function, Deep State resurfacing, relabeled "royal") as timeline thesis or point readers here.

Kulikovo (1380) vs First Crusade (~1196): same words, different battles

Long-form pages in paradigm-threat-files — e.g. mars/page.md, mudflood/page.md, chronology/page.md — describe Kulikovo using Fomenko's labels: Royal = giant Rus-Horde / Christ-kin line; Apostolic = the institutional church that canonized and fielded cannon against giants. That is consistent with Fomenko and compatible with the author's read of the institution as Istanbul continuity: at Kulikovo, that apparatus wins.

The First Crusade / Trojan War article uses the author relabel for the earlier war: Rus-Horde giants avenging Christ vs Istanbul–Troy deep state, not "Royal DNA vs humble apostolic masses." Do not merge the two battles into one branch diagram without noting which vocabulary is in force.