Cranmer’s Law

from Stand Firm by Jackie

From His Grace:

In fulfilment of the Orwellian prophecy, the prevailing political narrative has given rise to deviant definitions. ‘Bigotry’ has ceased to mean the obstinate and blind, often nasty and hypocritical, attachment to a particular creed. ‘Hatred’ has ceased to mean intense dislike or loathing. ‘Phobic’ has ceased to mean morbid fear or aversion. Each of these terms is now routinely applied to those who simply possess a contrary view or articulate an opposing opinion to the ubiquitous liberal-left worldview and social orthodoxy, and especially to those whose observations are irrefutable and arguments unanswerable.

And so, following the laws of Godwin and Hannan, today His Grace promulgates ‘Cranmer’s Law’, in honour of the memory of the one who was ‘an heretick’ no matter what he wrote, recanted, preached or proclaimed. He dared to articulate a view contrary to the state’s received orthodoxy, and duly paid the price. ‘Heretic’ has today simply been supplanted with ‘bigot’; ‘heresy’ with ‘hate speech’. But it is the same spirit of blind intolerance which is seen to possess even the most intelligent of commentators.

CRANMER’S LAW: “No matter how decent, intelligent or thoughtful the reasoning of a conservative may be, as an argument with a liberal is advanced, the probability of being accused of ‘bigotry’, ‘hatred’ or ‘intolerance’ approaches 1 (100%).”