Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • The thing about “We can have an instance without sectarianism!” ignores that, Trotskyists splitting at the atomic level aside, the ‘sects’ are often founded on fundamentally different values, not just whether Jesus is homoousios or homoiousios.

    In the end, this means that any dispute between sects will fundamentally raise the question of values, and no community nor authority is neutral on the matter of values. Which views count as following which values (for example, if someone regarded ‘racial equality’ as including ‘racial segregation’) is a fundamental question that, itself, invites sectarian splitting.

    Ultimately, you can create a broad space, but the idea that all of the previous anti-sectarian attempts have failed simply for not being anti-sectarian enough is just… not so. Most of those ‘sectarian’ spaces are the end result of anti-sectarian attempts - because you have to draw a line somewhere, and wherever you draw the line, a large percentage of people will be upset about where it is.

    Especially leftists, since we often revel in the broader value implications of small points.