If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.
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