At their core, the Veritadeo denounced not only the Papacy, but Christ himself -- and yet, they clung fervently to the need for redemption from Original Sin. Though the Veritadeo theology is no more or less philosophically defensible than any other religion, their pessimistic view of the reality of God and sin and punishment led to a decisive split of humanity into the Veritadeo camps (there were three) and those opposed to them (everyone else, most specifically the Popes). The Galactic War itself, the greatest conflict ever known, finds its roots in the Veritadeo Movement ... and, ironically, the Veritadeo Movement found its death in the Galactic War. Only small pockets and offshoots of the original Movement still exist in the darker corners of the galaxy and the Lattice.
The first of the Veritadeo's three major camps were the Distractionists, who in the early 71st Century put forth the original claim that Jesus Christ was not at all the True Son of God, but a device of Lucifer meant to draw as many people away from God's Truth ("Veritadeo") as possible. Their astounding rejection of the most central figure of all Christian faith based itself in the difficultly-disputed logic that human society could never carry the words of Christ to all corners of civilization, thereby dooming to Hell those otherwise innocent souls who could not ever hear of the Redemption of the Savior -- and, if innocent souls are doomed, then the Savior himself could be no work of God. In the tradition of Luther, who took so much of God's power out of the hands of human Popes, the Veritadeo placed the burden for repentance and salvation solely on personal contrition, not from the all-encompassing "payment" Christ's sacrifice. The Distractionists were the first and longest-living of the Veritadeo factions, surviving until the Peace of Pope Harro I in 7167 A.D. They were the most publicly active branch, and are generally regarded as the essence of the Veritadeo.
During the late 71st Century (7070-7093), a more radical and fundamentalist camp developed in the higher offices of the Veritadeo Movement. Eventually called the Addoselvet (certainly corrupted from "auto-salvation"), these ministers attempted to press Veritadeo philosophy further to its core with the pronouncement that not only was Redemption a personal responsibility, but so was the very interpretation and execution of Redemption -- to win Heaven, one need not abide by God's definition of goodness, but by one's own arbitrary definition ... whatever that might be. The Addoselvet took more than a few of the Movement's followers on this new course; in hindsight, many believe that they did more harm than good to the Movement, and the disruption might in part have determined the outcome of the Galactic War decades later. Most of the followers of the Movement remained firmly in the Distractionist camp, and the Addoselvet vanished after two decades.
The more shrewd of those ministers behind the Addoselvet, and others who believed along similar lines, founded the third of the Veritadeo camps, a natural evolution of the basic theology, called the Church Of The Nine Ethics (C9E). Mostly a compromise between the original Distractionist claim and the more mundanely-practical (though ill-fated) Addoselvet ideas, the C9E mostly discarded the millennia-old and scarcely-applicable tenets of the original Judeo-Christianity, and condensed and fabricated their own version of an absolute, dictated lifestyle -- a well-thought-out synthesis of the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Apostolics, the Golden Rule, the Desiderata, etc., the Nine Ethics present a simple set of rules and goals and guidelines, broadly-enough worded to apply to any HyperHuman society, but firm enough to maintain their integrity and not succumb in any large way to individual interpretation. The Nine Ethics were just beginning to grow in popularity when Rome fell, which swayed loyalties on many sides of the Galactic War, which in turn brought about the Catholic victory in 7167, whereafter the Veritadeo were expelled from the whole of human civilization. There can still be found, however, people who remember the Nine Ethics, and who quote one or two them on appropriate occasion. Many outside the Catholic Church claim that the Nine Ethics, if given enough time to grow and spread, might have been the beginning of a shining new Golden Age for humanity. Of course, history did not actually move in that direction, and we shall never know.