heresy

Example Sentences

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Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

From Salon

"This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy," he added.

From BBC

The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis – the opportunity of today.

From BBC

I realize this is heresy, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the irreducible strangeness of the drama.

From Los Angeles Times

But his suggestion that animals think and feel was seen as scientific heresy among many, if not most animal behaviour experts.

From BBC