In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
I am rather inclined to silence.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Dissents speak to a future age.
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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