Schism: the ‘new heresy’ versus the ‘new orthodoxy’
The rights of people with ‘alternative’ beliefs are not being upheld, even while most kinds of other personal convictions are. This flies flagrantly in the face of free speech laws which state that ‘all forms of expression’, within legality, should be respected; yet few seem to care nor see the slippery slope toward a wider society of control that denigrating one part of the population will precipitate. Andy Thomas
The world is in a horrendous muddle: conflict, confusion, contradiction and conundrum abound. Amid the malphonic chorus of contemporary life, a great agitation of minds, one can’t help feeling that reality is being distorted to the point of absurdity.
Nowhere is this more discernible than in the phenomenon of the ‘new heretics’, among whom are those who dare to challenge, publicly or otherwise, orthodoxies and mainstream narratives appertaining, for example, to ‘climate action’ and covid-19, and who are persecuted, with the seeming fervour of a ‘Holy Inquisition’, by being sidelined or muzzled and accused of ‘thoughtcrime’.
For such orthodoxies are defended with religious zeal with all the symptoms of a ‘cultural virus’ attacking freedom of expression.
The Catholic Church maintained power for centuries through faith and ‘weaponised’ fear. Those who contradicted the…
