HSRP-477
Heresy, apostasy and blasphemy law shows six recurring moves, and secular states repeat them when a state, party or nation takes a god's place.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Heresy, apostasy and blasphemy law shows six recurring moves, and secular states repeat them when a state, party or nation takes a god's place.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, US AND THEM › Crimes of thought and speech. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1c-12.
3. What it rests on
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Heresy, apostasy and blasphemy law shows six recurring moves in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic records and in Sasanian Iran: a center fixes the line; the offense presupposes membership; the breach is treated as treason; a religious office judges and the state's officers punish; recanting is the way back, and a relapse is fatal; speech and books are the evidence [SRC-835] [SRC-836] [SRC-843] [SRC-844]. In China, Korea and Japan, where no single creed was demanded, thought reached the law through an outward sign, such as a refused rite or a shared plan: under the Tang Code (653), a plot to betray the state was a capital crime before any act [SRC-833]. Secular states repeat the structure when a state, party or nation takes the place a god held, with courts shaped to loyalty and public tests of sincerity [SRC-837] [SRC-838]. Stated charges were not always the real reason for a prosecution, but they show what each authority placed above question.
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
PROBABLE; one mechanism WORKING
The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-478 · PROBABLE · "Thought crime" was an official term in Imperial Japan from 1928; Orwell popularized the word, and "wrongthink" came later.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-479 · ESTABLISHED · Democracies are on the same record: the US Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918, and Eugene Debs's ten-year sentence for an antiwar speech.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-480 · OPEN QUESTION · Prosecution of thought and speech ends where nothing is placed above question, as the US Supreme Court held in 1943.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Heresy, apostasy and blasphemy law shows six recurring moves, and secular states repeat them when a state, party or nation takes a god's place — PROBABLE; one mechanism WORKING”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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"note": "Cited on: /the-hive-mind, US AND THEM › Crimes of thought and speech. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1c-12.",
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