But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."
"Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?"
"That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.
Tag: power double-standards heresy orthodoxy
An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.
G.K. ChestertonTag: church catholic orthodoxy
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Brian D. McLarenTag: religion tradition orthodoxy legalism
A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor people, a more prosperous group...
Another lesson about the justice system: the way the judge charges the jury inevitably pushes them one way or the other, limits their independent judgment.
Tag: orthodoxy judicial-power criminal-justice-system impartiality jury jury-instructions
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Edward AbbeyTag: mind heart dogma independent-thought orthodoxy strictness critical-thinking
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
Ellis PetersTag: religion dogma doctrine labels heresy orthodoxy sainthood stigma
She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.
Terry Tempest WilliamsTag: orthodoxy
Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the world around us and within us … that will cost us everything. For to live by that sword, as we all know, is to die by it.
Peter RollinsTag: christianity religion spirituality orthodoxy
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
George OrwellThe very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher
Gregory B. SadlerTag: reason philosophy belief intellect orthodoxy dogmatism philosophy-of-religion christian-philosophy
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