User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1296654-20200810185923/@comment-45692830-20200811133804

It also seems wrong to categorize The Silence as a religious order, when in fact it's explicitly a doctrine in the episode. There's no offshoot happening, the entire Church has committed fully to the idea that a new doctrine, the doctrine of Silence, should be upheld. (The episode is actually rather clear on this.) But yes, this entire thing is a mess.