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Title: Heresy Author: SĂ©bastien Faure Date: 1934 Language: en Topics: Anarchist Encyclopedia, anti-christian, religion Source: Retrieved on November 15, 2011 from http://marxists.org/reference/archive/faure/1934/encyclopedia.htm
Heresy: (from the Greek hairesis; from hairen to choose.) Doctrine
condemned by the Catholic Church
As soon as it was in possession of a certain power thanks to its
recognition by kings and emperors, the Roman church forgot all of the
persecutions suffered by its founders.
As soon as it was armed with its redoubtable influence over monarchs and
lords, it delivered a pitiless and bloody war against those men who
didn’t bow to its commands. The fifteen centuries during which it
reigned as the uncontested master in Europe are nothing but a long
series of crimes that it perpetrated and committed in the name of
religion. There were veritable massacres of entire populations.
The most famous are: the massacre of the Albigensians (13^(th) century),
the wars of the Reformation, St. Bartholomew (1572), the dragonnades of
the Cevennes, the Massacre of the Innocents.
The Council of Verona (1183) ordered the bishops of Lombardy to deliver
to justice those heretics who refused to convert. A little later a
secret tribunal was established: the Inquisition, for the seeking out
and punishment of heretics. Up till the last century this tribunal sent
to the stake, after horrible tortures, people suspected of heresy. In
1766 a young man of 19, the chevalier de La Barre, was decapitated, then
burned, for not having saluted a procession and on suspicion of having
mutilated a crucifix.
Over the past fifty years the Church has lost much of its influence and
aside form Spain, where it still spreads terror, it is almost completely
disarmed in confronting heresy. Which is a great good.
Everything that constituted a step towards progress was considered a
heresy by the church. Did we not see the Italian mathematician Galileo,
for having written a book in which he explained that the sun is the
center of the solar system and not the earth, that the latter circled
around the sun like the other planets that reflect its light, did we not
see this 70 year old man forced to abjure on bended knee in 1633 his
so-called heresy? And did he not die blind because of the nine years of
semi-captivity inflicted on him by the Inquisition?
At the Council of Trent (1545–1563) the church created a Congregation of
the Index, which has as object the examination of published books and
their condemnation if they are judged dangerous. Up till the 19^(th)
century the effect of its condemnation was to have the book burned...and
sometimes its author! This congregation still exists; fortunately its
judgments are inoperative.
As we have seen, a heresy almost always contained a large measure of
truth.
What is more, the definition given by bourgeois dictionaries suffices to
affirm the revolutionary character of heresy.
“False or absurd opinion,” is written in the Larousse.
Is it not thus that all the privileged have qualified the opinions of
thinkers who concluded that revolt and the total reorganization of
society were necessary?
Anarchism is thus considered a heresy by all political parties, because
it demonstrates the harmfulness and duplicity of all the so-called
doctrines of all colors.
But it is a heresy that will succeed in prevailing and which will finish
by ruining all the commandments of all religious and political churches.