I don’t think that’s very helpful. It doesn’t seem to me that he as a very good grasp of what ‘heresy’ means, and you didn’t explain what you meant by it in context.
Did you mean:
What you’re doing is the modern-day equivalent to heresy (which I’d need explained)
What you’re suggesting is something that could serve the same purpose of accusations of ‘heresy’ in past days
something else
Note that for literal readings, the modern-day equivalent of ‘heresy’ is ‘heresy’. It still means the same thing and is used the same way by the Church.
That’s definitely not a way that I’ve heard ‘heresy’ used. From Wikipedia:
Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief.
In the Catholic tradition, heretics (people committing heresy) were condemned for leading people to believe that Catholicism is about something that it is not, and therefore putting their souls in danger.
Perhaps in the definition you gave above, you were referring to the attitude the Church had towards heresy, rather than heresy itself?
Also, your definition doesn’t fit what Alicorn suggested above. It might if you replace ‘idea’ with ‘utterance’ and understand ‘denounce’ to not mean ‘reject as false’.
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
I don’t think that’s very helpful. It doesn’t seem to me that he as a very good grasp of what ‘heresy’ means, and you didn’t explain what you meant by it in context.
Did you mean:
What you’re doing is the modern-day equivalent to heresy (which I’d need explained)
What you’re suggesting is something that could serve the same purpose of accusations of ‘heresy’ in past days
something else
Note that for literal readings, the modern-day equivalent of ‘heresy’ is ‘heresy’. It still means the same thing and is used the same way by the Church.
By heresy I mean preemptively denouncing an idea because it doesn’t adhere to some doctrine with no regard to whether the idea is true or false.
That’s definitely not a way that I’ve heard ‘heresy’ used. From Wikipedia:
In the Catholic tradition, heretics (people committing heresy) were condemned for leading people to believe that Catholicism is about something that it is not, and therefore putting their souls in danger.
Perhaps in the definition you gave above, you were referring to the attitude the Church had towards heresy, rather than heresy itself?
Also, your definition doesn’t fit what Alicorn suggested above. It might if you replace ‘idea’ with ‘utterance’ and understand ‘denounce’ to not mean ‘reject as false’.