that religion has 'allowed',
not that the heresy
(or anything else in life)
is in any way unconditional.
'Adam' and 'Eve'
were the first heretics
and the founders of life,
which is why ever since,
long after the events,
orthodoxy has always been
pedantic, a comma here
a full stop there, and relative.
and the founders of life,
which is why ever since,
long after the events,
orthodoxy has always been
pedantic, a comma here
a full stop there, and relative.
But religion DOESN'T allow it!
ReplyDelete1)very few religions are absolute today. Perhaps the worship of The Dear Leader and The Great Leader in North Korea is the nearest there is to an absolute religion today, and that worship is a personality cult, and both leaders are living gods-that cult trully does not permit 'heresy'. But then North Korea is so exceptional that it not useful for comparisons.
ReplyDeleteFor most of human history, christian or other, authoritarian institutions set boundaries that eventually shift, leaders fall out with each other, some leaders advocate reform, and many of the led who live out the reforms die, but that did not stop them believing.... ...nor did the deaths stop people later adopting similar ideas without get killed for their thoughts.