There is a long history of deviationists, so there must be something to it.
In the Netherlands, the party associated with the orthodox Reform Church boasts that it has never joined in any ruling coalition.
In our country, the Libertarian Party compromised once (in nominating Gary Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico), and almost became a meaningful party. Then, it reverted to ideological purity.
Going back in time, we had the religious wars in central Europe involving the Calvinists, Lutherans, Catholics and various Anabaptist sects. Those were the days when Europeans took matters of doctrine seriously!
I have a couple stories to illustrate deviationism (both stories are pretty well known). In the first, two Christians meet, and one says millennialist or amillennialist? Millenialist. Great, that makes both of us.
Pre-mill or post-mill? Pre-mill. Great, that makes both of us.
Mid-trib or a-trib? A-trib. Go away heathen!
The second concerns a man who had been lost at sea, discovered on a deserted island. The rescuers noticed he had three huts. Why three?
Well, the first one is my home. That’s where I sleep and so forth. That’s what we figured. One of the huts is your home. But what about the other two?
The second one is my church. That’s where I go to worship the Lord God. That makes sense. You dedicate a second hut to be a holy or separate place. But what about the third?
That’s where I used to go to church.
by your logic because there is a long history of atheists, there must be something to it...
it’s time to PURGE out the leaven and make conservatism to be conservative again.