‘It enjoys demonising the elected representatives of the labour movement and treats its left critics as heretics to be cast aside and scorned.’.

‘That was when people began to rebel against their unfair practises and that was when the Priests began condemning people to death, claiming they were heretics and rebels.’.

‘We went to a Catholic school yet we were known to the nuns to be the children of heretics who had rejected the Pope's rulings.’.

‘Care needs to be taken to distinguish between teachers that are misguided and those that are rank heretics who have rejected the faith.’.

‘Predictably, those trying to be midwives to these new theologies (note the plural) are being criticized as heretics, unorthodox, disturbers of the peace, etc.’.

‘They sought regeneration - a regeneration we can liken to that of the medieval heretic or saint.’.

‘Galileo was forced to repudiate his scientific knowledge lest he be declared a heretic by the official church.’.

‘Consequently those who came to believe that orthodox teaching was inadequate or wrong risked being declared heretics.’.

‘Declared a heretic by the Pope he was banished from Rome and subsequently vanished, presumed murdered.’.

‘The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings.’.

‘I think about Galileo dropping differently weighted things from the tower, only to be branded a heretic.’.

‘With the exception of Pangloss, the three other heretics are burned at the stake.’.

‘The Hussites, on the other hand, who broke away from the Holy Roman Empire in both political and religious senses, were heretics.’.

‘Any uprisings caused by religious heretics could bring pain and suffering to the whole Jewish population.’.

‘Can those of you who believe that pagans, Jews, heretics and schismatics can share in eternal life explain how you interpret this?’.

‘I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.’.

‘If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.’.

‘Persecuting witches or merely criticizing nonbelievers (as infidels, heretics, pagans, or gentiles) can unite the Faithful.’.

‘The heretics Marcion and Valentinus believed that God was androgynous.’.

‘He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.’.

Heretic synonym