I would like to point out that the heresy of Donatism gets stigmatized by Augustinians (who won the war) as "You have to be a 100% perfect person and if you're not you might as well just die" Really it's just "If you sold out the cause you don't get to be a leader in it"
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They didn't say you couldn't still be a *Christian* - they explicitly said you could They just said you could no longer be a *priest* If you name names to the FBI you can still be a socialist but you don't get to lead the fucking protest
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The Catholic position - once a priest, always a priest - was a pragmatic one Lots of people had knuckled under to persecution, in some places if you turfed out all the collaborators you'd have no one left qualified to serve It's *understandable*
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But you can immediately see why, for all the pious talk about God's infinite forgiveness, setting this as a precedent is a bad, bad idea If you make it an actual formal rule that leaders still get to lead no matter how they betray their followers, what kind of leaders do you get
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This may or may not directly apply to modern leaders in modern contexts including the actual Catholic priesthood But it's worth thinking about
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It’s only a real traitor if it comes from the Trait region of France and I blame Blaine Capatch for that joke.
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