The Filioque destroyed Christianity on at least three levels that I will demonstrate. 1. It destroyed the unity of the Church by its insertion unilaterally in the Nicene Creed, thereby sparking the great schism. 2. It introduced arbitrary theology. Biblical evidence for the filioque is arbitrary, and arbitrary theology combined with papal fiat (catholic) or personal conscience (protestant), creates an engine of innovation in the historic faith. 3. By logical necessity of the filioque claims, the Spirit is not divine, which I will demonstrate. These are my opening claims which I will proceed to demonstrate in succeeding rounds.

My first claim, it destroyed the unity of the faith. Not only did it create the great schism through its insertion by papal fiat, but that same action that caused the great schism later caused the protestant reformation by further actions. The Protestant reformation is therefore a direct consequence of that initial violation, and the Protestant reformation resulted in further division of tens of thousands of denominations. So if Christianity is no longer one "thing", one church, with a shared history, liturgical life, communion, doctrine and general theology as it was for the first 1000 years, the filioque spawned a situation now where various Christian groups only agree on the most basic principles, and so Christianity as a "thing" is destroyed, and now it must be defined as a category of many things with only broad similarities, directly caused by that initial schism, which the filioque is responsible for. That is my first claim.

2. It introduced arbitrary theology. Since the only static, nonambiguous datapoint in scripture is when Jesus says, "the spirit, who proceeds from the father", all other scriptural datapoints are secondary inferences of procession based on the temporal mission of the holy spirit. Ie, the Son sends the Spirit in time as an indication of the eternal procession of the Spirit. But this requires first that it is true that a temporal sending is indicative of eternal procession, and there is no scriptural reason to assume that is true. Its arbitrarily asserted. Furthermore, the same type of evidence, which is inference of procession based on temporal mission could be made equally to say the Father and the Spirit eternally beget the Son. Why? Because in time, the Spirit begets the Son in the virgin birth. The Spirit acts on the Son at his baptism. "The Spirit is upon me to preach the good news...".. So if one divine Person acting on another in time is indicative of eternal procession, then an equally strong case can be made to say the Father and the Spirit eternally beget the Son. The "Spirituque"... but no one makes his argument. The Filioque argument is made by motivated reasoning to bolster the position of the Son to combat Arianism. Its assertion from the data is arbitrary if the same case can be made in the opposite. Lastly, certain scholastics have made analogies based on the Son breathing the Spirit on the disciples as an indication of the procession, the Spirit/Breath/Wind/Ruach comes out of the Son... but if we admit these analogies, it must also be admitted that Words (the Son is the Word) are created by Breath/Ruach, so the Son would proceed from the Spirit. Again, its arbitrary which side you choose. Arbitrary theological precepts destroy a focus on truth, and without Truth, Christianity is destroyed. If we allow arbitrary theology, that can be introduced via papal fiat or personal conscience (protestant), theology is completely unmoored, destroying Christianity itself.

Worship and charity stopping is not what defines destruction of Christianity. You cant just change the definition of the Godhead and claim worship is not divorced from its previous understanding. Its a different God that is being worshipped. Christianity had a defintiion of what the godhead was. You change that, you cant just say its the same thing. The thing it was is destroyed. Which brings me to my third point: The logic of the filiooque demands that the holy spirit is not divine. I want to make it clear, this is not about what one WANTS the conclusion to be. Believers of the filioque WANT the Spirit to be eternal. But the construction logical demands it. Since the proposition is that the spirit proceeds from the father AND the son, the son is a necessary logical prior that must be eternally begotten BEFORE the spirit can process from him. This creates an order of operations. Because Before and Prior have meaningful definitions, its a temporal order, not just a logical order, because its a logical necessity for the prior to exist. Now follow this: if you have this addition step in the procession, you now have a sequence of events, and sequences only occur in time. Because eternality is a quality of divinity, if the Spirits procession must logically occur in a time sequence, the Spirit is not eternal, and therefore not divine. This destroys Christianity by eliminating one of the three persons of the godhead in its divinity. I know this is not what they were ASSERT, they ASSERT the spirit is divine, the spirit is eternal, but that is not evidenced by the construction of the filioque which demands the Spirit proceeds from the Father AND the Son, which are logically prior. Therefore the filioque destroyed 1. the Unity of the Faith. 2. Introduced arbitrary theology, which destroys the faith. 3. Destroys the Godhead itself by making the spirit non-eternal and non-divine. 4. It destroyed the norming authority of councils and creeds by its introduction. Therefore, the Christianity that existed prior to the filioque is not the same belief system as what occured after, and if Christianity was that prior thing, it is no longer that thing after.

Christianity as a description and a definition only matters if that its definitions are meaningful. What Christianity meant when the filioque was introduced is not what it means today. It definitionally changed based on the filioque, and then allow a fragmentation to such an extent that my opponent is having to operate on a much wider definition of Christianity than would have been accepted in the first 1000 years. The cascading effect of the filioque produced a myriad of competing claims to what Christianity is, functions, and believes. The God of the Filioque is not the God of not the Filioque.