HSRP-527
Sanctions price dissent, from Spinoza's ban in 1656 to shunning today, and parties and professions use them too: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Sanctions price dissent, from Spinoza's ban in 1656 to shunning today, and parties and professions use them too: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND › The working parts. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3a-8.
3. What it rests on
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Sanctions price dissent. In 1656 the lay governors of Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish congregation banned Baruch Spinoza and forbade members to speak with him or read his writings [SRC-964]. In 1981 the Watch Tower Society disfellowshipped Raymond Franz, formerly of its own Governing Body [SRC-965]. Amish churches shun baptized members who break their rule and will not repent [SRC-966]. Parties expel and professions ostracize: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's. Its hardest form, heresy law, is in US AND THEM.
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
ESTABLISHED as acts; as the hive's price on dissent 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-455 · PROBABLE · With a center, most members follow a reset and refusers leave; without one, a body splits.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-524 · CONTESTED · Durkheim held that a gathered group fixes its shared intensity on its emblems as the sacred, so the reason ends in the group.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-525 · WORKING · Whitehouse's doctrinal mode supplies a center and a channel and his imagistic mode a fence; joined and turned on doubt, they give the cult's form.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-526 · CONTESTED · Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay, and the stricter religious communes lasted longer; that strictness makes churches grow is disputed.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-528 · PROBABLE · A religious center reaches common practice more readily than private conduct: after Humanae Vitae most American Catholics rejected its ban on contraception, and the Soviet state's atheist monopoly closed churches but largely failed to produce atheist conviction.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Sanctions price dissent, from Spinoza's ban in 1656 to shunning today, and parties and professions use them too: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's — ESTABLISHED as acts; as the hive's price on dissent 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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