One of the great appeals of orthodoxy is that you can use it as a substitute for more demanding kinds of virtue, like courage or honesty.
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Hypothesis: people who are extremely orthodox in their opinions will have less of other virtues.
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Love a good grammar debate. "Virtue" can be bouth countable and uncountable, depending on the usage (like "water" or "hair"). Given Paul is talking about the total amount of a mix of virtue, uncountable, and "less" seems more appropriate. (But I usually feel this pain, too
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Is orthodoxy a virtue or a crutch?
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Bit like asking, is unorthodoxy a virtue or arrogance? For both, probably depends on the specific circumstance. That is to say, if you are biased towards one or the other, it's probably not a virtue.
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This excludes the fact that some can hold to orthodoxy not as an easy way out, but by carefully considering the issues and concluding that orthodoxy has got it right all along.
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This. And since most unorthodoxy is wrong, I would say humility is a virtue much closer linked to orthodoxy than unorthodoxy.
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Per Garrison Keillor: people without doubt are monsters.
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Too much of anything is harmful, even nothing.
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Or everything.
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Courageous people are certainly less likely to be conventional thinkers. But not sure how other virtues like kindness, generosity and humility relate to orthodoxy. They may be totally independent.
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I might be conflating orthodoxy with something else. But I can imagine situations where folks will do unkind things to others out of an inherited belief. Maybe this is tribalism, or conformity more - which may relate to orthodoxy. Might be more a recipe than an attitude, though.
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