Red Herrings, Heresy and Hot Topics | Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Red Herrings, Heresy and Hot Topics | Fr. Dwight Longenecker: A red herring might be defined as a rhetorical device to distract someone from the real argument. There are three such relativistic devices–heresies or red herrings–that are used in our society and church constantly. They may be named the sentimental heresy, the utilitarian heresy and the political heresy. These forms of argument are, for the