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Religions/Belief Systems - Montanism
Montanism was a Phrygian form of primitive Puritanism, around the 2nd and 3rd centuries. According to the customs of this religion, Christians should stay aloof from the secular world as much as possible, and have nothing whatsoever to do with pagans.
They had expectations of the imminent second coming of Christ and found much prophetic evidence to support these expectations, which the believed to be divinely inspired. They were widely mistrusted by other Christian sects.