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Can religion become heresy as it claims heresy in regards to others?

David T

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Premium Member
The term heresy is sometimes bandied around in modern religion. i have to laugh at its absurd usage today. Its often the case of the kettle calling the pot black. Can that in and of itself become a statement by a heretic?

Where it becomes A kind of deflection of a closer examination of their perspective, as a response to others who might say "you know you are being nutty."

In a real sense that was martin luther, first being the recipient of heresy" for claiming the church might not be tracking correctly. Of course later in his life calling the pope the anti christ was, well nutty as well. So the jovial interfaith dialog can get really nasty regardless.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
The term heresy is sometimes bandied around in modern religion. i have to laugh at its absurd usage today. Its often the case of the kettle calling the pot black. Can that in and of itself become a statement by a heretic?

Where it becomes A kind of deflection of a closer examination of their perspective, as a response to others who might say "you know you are being nutty."

In a real sense that was martin luther, first being the recipient of heresy" for claiming the church might not be tracking correctly. Of course later in his life calling the pope the anti christ was, well nutty as well. So the jovial interfaith dialog can get really nasty regardless.


love is idiosyncratic. one person's folly is another's boon.


 

PureX

Veteran Member
According to dogma "A", which proclaims it self to be the one and only truth, all other dogmas are heresy. And if any of those other dogmas proclaim themselves to be the one and only truth, they will view all the others, including dogma "A", as heresy. This is not an example of "hypocrisy" so much as it's just the inherent relativism of proclaimed truth.
 

David T

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
According to dogma "A", which proclaims it self to be the one and only truth, all other dogmas are heresy. And if any of those other dogmas proclaim themselves to be the one and only truth, they will view all the others, including dogma "A", as heresy. This is not an example of "hypocrisy" so much as it's just the inherent relativism of proclaimed truth.
I simply call it reductionism.. Someone discovers "hey we share traits due to genetics" i now have a universial truth "therefore, (pick your narrative)" ... Seems "normal" to me, and idependent of religion!
 

Jeremiah Ames

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“We can tell that semblances of truth, which are clothed truths, can be taken from the Word as bare truths and that they become false when we convince ourselves of them, if we think of the abundance of heresies that have existed and still exist in Christianity.
The heretical ideas themselves do not hurt us. What hurts us is living evil lives, and also using the Word and the rationalizations of our earthly self to convince ourselves of the false notions inherent in the heretical ideas.”

The above is from ‘Sacred Scripture’ written in 1763 by Emanuel Swedenborg
 
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