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I wonder. It seems to me that orthodoxy is a fairly recent concept. The Classical Greeks, and IIRC the Hindus and other Pagans, for example didn't seem to mind if people made esoteric cults, or declare themselves atheists, or thought that there might be a better alternative to democracy (praising Sparta), etc. They only killed Socrates after a student of his became the most competent general of the invading Spartans, killing their kinsmen, and even after they regretted it!
There was this whole class of people, like Heraclitus, who so far as I can tell did nothing but go to the market to yell esoteric ideas at people and then go back to their homes to think. The hermits and the monks predate organized religion. In the state of nature there is no one to establish orthodoxy, because no one has that amount of control, and that persisted into some early states like Athens I think.
Oh, and if a bunch of people didn't like the state, to the point of that being an issue, a new one would be created for them! Imagine that! They could just leave, and do what they wanted!