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heresy

a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion (= unorthodoxy) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

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Heresy was a crime for which people were sometimes sentenced to death.
Galileo was cleared of charges of heresy, but was told that he should no longer publicly state his belief that Earth moved around the Sun.
It's heresy.
Jehovah's Witnesses are adherents of the Arian heresy.

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We are ready to fight against all enemies that shamefully accuse our land of heresy and threaten a crusade.
Give the Utraquists' leader, Lord Wartenberk, this Order of the Golden Dragon as a sign that he is to root out and destroy the plague of heresy.
Are we to wait till paganism and heresy absorb Christianity?
Yes, he dares to use hypnosis, a heresy in science.
She did not think, plot or do anything against the faith. But envious people who wished ill on her, her parents and the good of princes and peoples tried her for heresy.
And now heresy.
This is no heresy.
That was before Dr. Zaius and half of the Academy said my idea was heresy.
How can scientific truth be heresy?
It is scientific heresy that is being tried here.
The state charges Drs Zira and Cornelius with contempt of this tribunal, malicious mischief, and scientific heresy.
At the moment, your two simian friends and sponsors are free on bail. But they'll soon be brought to trial for heresy.
You're talking heresy, doctor.
Cornelius and I have been indicted for heresy.
I have the honor to be el supremo of the Santa Hermandad. which is entrusted by His Majesty, Don Carlos. with the duty of passing sentence on those poor sinners. whom the Holy Office have found guilty of heresy.
Unpleasant to know that there are those who are defending Christianity. by spending themselves to uproot the detestable sin of heresy?
Well, the charge is heresy.
Heresy? - My father and mother heretics? It's a lie.
But you know my father and mother are not guilty of heresy.
The Inquisition accused her of heresy.
Because of the unfortunate accident to your sister. I am prepared to offer you leniency. provided you sign a confession. that you and your parents are guilty of heresy.
His Majesty is convinced that the seeds of heresy are everywhere. and that they need investigation in this new land as well as in Spain.
Darling, you're speaking heresy!
One more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy.
Heresy. Blimey. I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
What will people say? It's heresy.
I'm afraid that particular heresy escapes me.
Heresy only leads one away from the truth.
In conclusion, a heresy that denies a mystery can attract the ignorant and the shallow, but can never blot out the truth.
If I let you speak at the assembly, if I let you speak about your damn federation, it's a heresy against everything they believe in.
But there can be but one punishment for such a heresy.
So they found a heresy to nail him to.
Well, it wasn't much of a heresy, my friend, just a little thing.
Heresy, treachery, incitement to escape.
For his trouble, he was accused of heresy.
That village of witches and heresy.
The plague of heresy infests Christianity.
The citizen Malkh is accused of heresy.
I heared, that heresy is dead evil.

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For starters, economics teaching and research is deeply embedded in an institutional structure that, as with any ideological movement, rewards orthodoxy and penalizes heresy.
Such thoughts may seem heretical now, but without heresy there will be no reform.
Some observers regard any suggestion of even modestly elevated inflation as a form of heresy.
Endorsing the claim to arbitrary power is the cardinal heresy of those who say we should certify property stolen from the state as rightfully owned.
I call this a heresy because it rejects the supremacy of equality under law and proclaims the supremacy of particular men.
For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except maximizing value for shareholders is heresy.
The equation of state with nation is the arch-heresy of our time.
Not much debate attends their enactment, because a fear of heresy keeps most critics from questioning anything deemed Islamic.
But scientists themselves are partly responsible, because they have hardened uncertainties into probabilities, treated disputable propositions as matters of fact, and attacked dissent as heresy.
These zealots are not fundamentalists in any common sense of the term, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: there is no Hindu pope, no Hindu Sabbath, no single Hindu holy book, and no such thing as a Hindu heresy.

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