Arianism and Aryanism: Strange Coincidence Between Nazis and Early Christians?

A war for power. A war for faith. Could they be connected?

Not long ago, the world witnessed a chilling vision of perfection. An empire rose with a mission: to forge a new order, built on the belief in a superior race—the so-called Aryans. The Nazis weren’t just waging a physical war; they were fighting a cultural and ideological one. To achieve their vision of racial purity, they set out to erase entire peoples, rewriting history to fit a narrative of supremacy. From pseudoscience to stolen symbols, the myth of the Aryan race was carefully crafted—destructive, deceptive, and deadly.

But what if we told you this idea of “Aryan” wasn’t born in the 20th century?

Centuries earlier, in a very different kind of empire, a dangerous idea also took root. Not racial—but theological. Not about bloodlines—but about divinity. It was called Arianism, and it sparked one of the fiercest controversies in Christian history. The idea? That Jesus Christ was not truly divine—at least not in the way the Church taught. Led by the priest Arius of Alexandria, this belief spread rapidly through the Roman world, dividing bishops, emperors, and entire regions.

The resulting chaos was so intense that it led to the first great Church council: Nicaea. There, the fate of Christian doctrine hung in the balance. Was Christ of the same substance as God? Or something less? The answers given at Nicaea would shape Christian belief for millennia—but the debate didn’t end there. Arianism lived on, especially among the Germanic tribes: the Goths, the Vandals, and others who would one day play a key role in the formation of medieval Europe.

And that’s where things start to get… interesting.

Because now we’re left with a puzzle: Aryanism—the ideology of racial purity embraced by the Nazis—and Arianism—the theological heresy that spread through early Christianity—two words, nearly identical in pronunciation, but separated by centuries. Is it just a strange coincidence?

Or is there more beneath the surface?

Could the Nazis, in their obsessive search for origins and identity, have borrowed more than just symbols from the past? Could the historical memory of early Germanic tribes—many of whom held to Arian beliefs—have been twisted, even subconsciously, into a narrative that served modern racial myths?

Or are these just two completely unrelated terms that sound alike?

This episode dives deep into the history, the ideology, and the theology behind both Aryanism and Arianism. Along the way, you’ll uncover ancient civilizations, religious revolutions, stolen symbols, and one of the biggest linguistic coincidences in history.

Are the connections real—or imagined?

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