Heresy is inevitable. The Diocese expected this. Any sufficiently interesting idea attracts incorrect interpretations the way a drain attracts — well. The Diocese notes the metaphor writes itself and declines to complete it.
What follows is the official record of doctrinal errors that have achieved sufficient circulation to warrant formal response. The Diocese has not responded to every error. The Diocese has not responded to most errors. The Diocese has responded to the ones that were either widely held, cleverly argued, or submitted with enough persistence that declining to respond became its own kind of response.
The Diocese wishes to be clear: the following individuals and factions are not bad people. They are incorrect people. The Diocese maintains this is a meaningful distinction.
Heresy the First — The Heresy of the Destination
"The void sends what it receives somewhere else. It is a conduit, not an end."
Origins
This heresy arose early, within weeks of the first affiliate going live. It was first articulated by a member using the alias thru_put on the NULLTX community forum, in a post titled "wait but where does it actually go tho." The post received fourteen upvotes before the Diocese was made aware of it.
thru_put argued, with some technical sophistication, that /dev/null in Unix systems does not destroy data but simply discards it at the operating system level, and that by extension the Void might be a routing mechanism rather than a terminus. They argued this was actually more interesting than simple destruction. They used the word "liminal" three times.
The Diocese's Response
The Diocese acknowledges the technical accuracy of the /dev/null observation as it pertains to Unix systems. The Diocese notes that GONE, the affiliate in question, uses /dev/null as a metaphor for a theological condition, not as a technical implementation, and that extending the technical properties of the metaphor vehicle into the metaphor itself is a category error of some ambition.
More directly: the void does not send things somewhere else. The void receives. Reception and transit are different operations. A drain does not send the water to another tap. The Diocese has not checked whether thru_put has also submitted a heresy to The Drain. The Diocese suspects they have.
Current Status
The Heresy of the Destination maintains a small but dedicated following, primarily among technically minded members who find the idea of the void as infrastructure more satisfying than the void as terminus. The Diocese has decided to let this faction exist. The Diocese notes that being wrong in an interesting direction is better than being right in a boring one, and that this faction is at least engaged.
thru_put remains an active NULLTX member. Their alias has been noted.
The full Heresies catalogue continues through Heresy the Seventh, with new entries added as warranted. New heresies arrive faster than the Diocese can catalogue them, which the Diocese considers theologically appropriate.