I hear «heresy» used in a joking manner more
than a serious
one, as most
younger Christians have been so inundated by the word to refer to any deviation from «traditional» (read:
conservative) Christianity that they are inoculated from the possibility that heresy is a real and dangerous thing to avoid.
The
conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with
one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a
young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more
than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.