Author: Sergio Mascarenhas (---.74.39)
Date: 01-03-2005 23:16
One aspect you didn't emphasize relates to the politics that usually involve heresies, since you mostly handled the religious aspect.
A particular religious thought becomes an heresy when it gets a body of people that sustain it. That body of people is usually made of the followers of the particular religious man (or woman) that proposes the deviant religious thinking. It's this social underscoring of that thinking that makes it a social movement and a heresy.
What happens is that political leaders tend to use heresies to their advantage. That's why Ireland is Catholic instead of Protestant, Poland is Catholic instead of Ortodox, and so on. You defend the religions strain that is different from across the border, thus making religion another factor of separation and identity.
I look forward to the continuation of the series.
Sergio
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