by Drax » Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:42 pm
Boris N. Miliukhov, Representative of the Federated Socialist Republic of Trigunia:
Trying to narrowly confine consideration to the actual issue brought before us. Anathema admittedly has been a political weapon wielded by churches as a state in the past. But how should it be used?
Churches sincerely believing some of their own have strayed from their notions of the true divine doctrines have declared individuals outside of and no longer part of their religious community. Fair enough. One can hope these churches do not (still )have access to burning heretics at the stake but casting them out of community is what one would reasonably expect of the very doctrinaire. (Indeed even socialists act on these urges.)
The actual anathema appears to have been directed toward certain Aurorian clergy and hence their flocks caught between the political demands of their government and the political demands of their church rather than directed toward the government with which the church was in conflict. We agree with the Representative of Likatonia this is not to be approved. We agree with the Representative from Endralon it is to be condemned.
As to a remedy, neither governments nor religious institutions actually survive because of their martyrs but because they learn to adapt to circumstances. Even we socialists can see obvious easy compromises available. Surely it it is time to call in a neutral mediator. We do not refer to ourselves.
Neue Dundorfische Zentrumspartei (NDZP), Dundorf, Active
Deltarianska Narodna Strana (DNS), Deltaria, Active
Dedicated to the proposition.