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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5638923" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Exactly. And if that doesn't fit within your definition of 'heresy', then I'm at a loss as to what would. Socrates was condemned to death for promulgating novel religious beliefs that were believed to corrupt the young, and you are trying to tell me that that doesn't fit the definition of 'heresy'?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So generally was heresy. When charges of witchcraft or heresy were brought forward, only a minority of those cases were tried in ecclesiastical courts. In fact, often if accused by the secular authorities, when the option was available you had better odds appealing to the eccelesiastical court, because they had lower conviction rates and would appoint you an advocate for your defense. The eccelesiastical court might be corrupt as well, and if so you were out of luck, but there was relatively less chance that your neighbor bringing the complaint was in cahoots with the judge in a scheme to legally get you murdered and your property confiscated.</p><p></p><p>And this is ignoring the interesting question of whether any prosecution can be considered wholly secular when you have a state backed religion and the charges in question are "corrupting the minds of the young and teaching disbelief in the gods".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5638923, member: 4937"] Exactly. And if that doesn't fit within your definition of 'heresy', then I'm at a loss as to what would. Socrates was condemned to death for promulgating novel religious beliefs that were believed to corrupt the young, and you are trying to tell me that that doesn't fit the definition of 'heresy'? So generally was heresy. When charges of witchcraft or heresy were brought forward, only a minority of those cases were tried in ecclesiastical courts. In fact, often if accused by the secular authorities, when the option was available you had better odds appealing to the eccelesiastical court, because they had lower conviction rates and would appoint you an advocate for your defense. The eccelesiastical court might be corrupt as well, and if so you were out of luck, but there was relatively less chance that your neighbor bringing the complaint was in cahoots with the judge in a scheme to legally get you murdered and your property confiscated. And this is ignoring the interesting question of whether any prosecution can be considered wholly secular when you have a state backed religion and the charges in question are "corrupting the minds of the young and teaching disbelief in the gods". [/QUOTE]
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