Incomprehensibility could shield heretical writings from punishment
Evidence
An official of the Holy Office, who had examined Postel’s writings for heresy in 1555, reported that, though his ideas were definitely heretical, ‘no one, fortunately, could possibly understand them except the author’. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 126
Categorization
- APHORISMS: Near-aphoristic: opaque obscurity can render dangerous ideas legally harmless.
- XREF: connects to: God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails