This means that heresy, after Luther, has become an innately unstable condition. If all moral choices are reduced to preferences, heresy becomes impossible, because it requires an intellectual disagreement about the objective world. For a start, heresy relies on the existence of an orthodoxy of generally accepted ideas. So for heresy to arise, morality must be understood as a collective property and not just something that individuals practice. Dangerous patternIn heresy, moral values come to be identified with particular ideas, quite often ideas so subtle that it’s possible to become a heretic by accident.

Source: The Guardian December 25, 2017 11:48 UTC