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It seems "heretical" is mostly just used for ideas which are controversial and not generally accepted. But "heretical" have positive connotations, implying the
by goto11 5y ago
It seems "heretical" is mostly just used for ideas which are controversial and not generally accepted. But "heretical" have positive connotations, implying the idea is suppressed for dogmatic reasons. So you use the term heretical for non-mainstream views you like.
- nine_k 5y agoTechnically "heresy" means exactly "serious deviation from set beliefs" [1]. It's indeed interesting indeed how the meaning moved from the "dangerous mistaken beliefs held despite firm evidence" (today this could be antivaxers) to "challenging mainstream views in interesting and possibly productive ways" (a century ago that would be quantum physics). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy
- colechristensen 5y agoI don’t know, if you look back into the history of heresy especially the origins of the usage of the word it really seems like mutually ignorant people having bike shed arguments about mostly inane differences about the meaning of one abstraction or another and abusing each other as a result. Heresy is about elevating your opinions into moral imperatives so you can say people that disagree with you are evil, with the added note that the opinions would usually be entirely inconsequential if you were more relaxed about the whole thing. (I’m looking at you, people who killed each other over the “real meaning” of the holy trinity) Heresy isn’t about the mainstream, but about fanatics in power obsessively gibbering over details to try to own concepts, or just to keep up their power.