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"heretical" Definitions
  1. (of a religious belief or opinion) against the principles of a particular religion
  2. (of a belief or opinion) disagreeing strongly with what most people believe

253 Sentences With "heretical"

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By attacking "heretical" Muslim, ISIS again draws the line between what it perceives as "good" and "bad" Muslims, and signals that it can still challenge the political stability of "heretical" regimes.
The notion of watching horror movies on Christmas seems downright heretical.
It felt dangerous and thrilling to dabble with something so heretical.
Iran's Shi'ite government considers the faith a heretical offshoot of Islam.
Traditional Wahhabi doctrine is ultra-conservative and views Shi'ites as heretical.
The shareholder-first world view regards such a proposal as heretical.
Such policies are heretical to investors but increasingly appeal to French voters.
On February 24, 1616, the Qualifiers of the Inquisition declared heliocentrism heretical.
Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam that some jihadists consider heretical.
Salafist fighters shut down a celebration of Earth Day, also deemed heretical.
The Communist Party does remain determined to protect its population from heretical thinking.
In the face of these sorts of anomalies, some heretical thoughts are surfacing.
Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam that some extremists consider heretical. 5.
It seems heretical to say this, but maybe this was meant to be.
If this is a heretical project, well, my subject is familiar with heresy.
Still, might not the Jaguar-Aston offerings rankle some purists as, well, heretical?
Though Ahmadi beliefs are deeply rooted in Islam, orthodox Muslims consider them heretical.
I've heard scholars call it a heretical belief that distorted the life of Jesus.
Allow me to suggest a heretical thought, a violation of the new conventional wisdom.
Differing ideologies are not tolerated, and Saudi Arabia's minority Shiites are seen as heretical.
So the actors would just say "caca," which I thought was just fucking heretical.
To those who worship at her altar, these truths I speak of are heretical.
Even in this day and age of anything goes, that is quietly heretical act.
Many members of the state-employed clergy have long taught that Shi'ism is heretical.
Sufism is a mystical branch of Islam that some ultra-orthodox Muslims consider heretical.
The best of these books are heretical where narratives of sexual violence are concerned.
Suspicious of Mumler's heretical trade, he visited him at his studio the following day.
On the surface, so below: Many of Guardiola's principles border on heretical in England.
We do not allow churches with heretical doctrine to cooperate with larger denominational structures.
Few things are as heretical in branding as saying "No" to the question of monetization.
Ted Cruz calling a basketball hoop a "ring" is about as heretical as it gets.
His foreign minister was an Ahmadi, another small sect that some Muslims regard as heretical.
The ultra-Orthodox object to any formal recognition of the Jewish groups they deem heretical.
Years after Pearson's heretical vision, how does the American church reckon with those tangible evils?
The novel appears to be heretical and revolutionary; it also appears to be counter-revolutionary.
And also, not to be completely heretical, what's so sacred about "the darkened cinema" anyway?
"When we started doing this, it was heretical," Revolution co-founder Tige Savage tells TechCrunch.
For professional politickers—the consultants, pollsters and columnists who shape political news—his campaign is heretical.
A politically active clergy was, and still is for many leading Shia thinkers, a heretical innovation.
Assisting or allowing his ascendance by electoral abstinence in order to force a "revolution" is heretical.
What were once heretical positions are now becoming litmus tests for politicians on the national stage.
There's something heretical about seeing Edgar G. Ulmer's Poverty Row classic "Detour" in a pristine restoration.
"Ideas and assumptions that it was heretical to question are now openly being contested," she said.
And, to be yet more heretical, I believe it is possible to say no to more.
Democrats have taken the constitutionally heretical position that a president must act if Congress "fails" to.
For instance, Bannon has said he'd prefer economic policies that conservatives generally consider far more heretical.
Senator Marco Rubio dared use that music to kick off a political ad, potentially a heretical act.
Saudi Arabia follows the rigid Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam in which Shi'ism is seen as heretical.
Many deem Kanye West's so-called turn to religion troubling at best, and borderline heretical at worst.
As heretical as it is for a criminal defense attorney like myself to say, deterrence could help.
" And he dismissed the Trump administration's nationalistic approach to Christianity as "a heretical form of theological malpractice.
One character denounces "those horrid new-fangled heretical air-conditioners" that start appearing in the nineteen-eighties.
And yet his faithful translations of drawing into painting could be seen as heretical to both camps.
For liberals and conservatives, this cross-cutting, grab bag of hard-line policy stances is heretical, even fringe.
IN 14TH-CENTURY Germany a heretical cult grew up around the figure of Frederick II, a dead emperor.
He turned the once-heretical idea of tracking the broad stock market into the dominant form of investing.
She deftly exploited the Catholic conflation of Protestants and Muslims as two sides of the same heretical coin.
The idea that Earth goes around the Sun, and not the other way around, was once considered heretical.
The books I loved most this year — a heretical, often form-shattering bunch — take it one step further.
I really liked this version of the song; hopefully it's not heretical or thunder-stealing for the Boys.
They are a taste of inauthenticity, perhaps, a heretical sham — lame supermarket Tex-Mex food, a whitewashed charade.
That thinking, which would have been heretical in years past, is a hallmark of the Satya Nadella era.
Yet however maverick or heretical on the surface, the work of these chefs is rooted in Japanese technique.
The Orthodox Church has campaigned for years against Jehovah's Witnesses, a rival it views as a heretical sect.
The worshippers in Bir al-Abed were Sufis, followers of a mystical sect that many Muslim extremists consider heretical.
But the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi clergy, which views Shi'ites as heretical, is a cornerstone of Saudi ruling legitimacy.
For the governments in Saudi Arabia, United States and Israel, such divergent thinking is not merely undesirable but heretical.
One of those heretical texts, The Gospel of Mary, portrays her as possessing deeper insight than the Apostle Peter.
It's almost heretical to say so, but when "the people" have spoken they often don't know what they've said.
Mr. Michele is an avid student of history, but also a gleeful and heretical mixologist of its disparate elements.
Saudi clerics used to urge on Sunni mujahideen against the supposedly heretical Alawite clan ruling Syria with their Iranian allies.
This was heretical among local Shia communities and yet also had precedent in Iran's modern history, as Mr Amanat illustrates.
Years ago, Ms. May campaigned against police profiling, a stance viewed as heretical to the now-purified American conservative movement.
Many Shiites complain of discrimination in the Sunni-majority kingdom whose official creed considers some Shiite beliefs and practices heretical.
There have been heretical readings of it since even before it was officially named this country's national anthem in 1931.
It's true that monetary authorities are more willing to consider measures, like buying corporate debt, that seemed heretical in 2008.
It was van Hove's most heretical revision, because it cut so sharply against the grain of the song's vaudeville style.
Though the idea might seem heretical to some, modern film-makers are doing what the Gospel writers did: showing and telling.
And Bach's somewhat cryptic note is not even about the less heretical notion of God's possibly just "dwelling" within music, either.
Some Sri Lankan Sufis, who follow a mystical form of Islam that Wahhabis consider heretical, said they began to be persecuted.
When it comes to his personal life, the icon was actually a bit unconventional for his time: heretical, untamed, and also homosexual.
Confronting her grandmother's open casket, she doesn't weep, or shy away, but bites into a candy bar with a loud, heretical snap.
If the franchise bolts—idiot prince failson Mark Davis seems all-in on the idea, whatever that's worth—it will be heretical.
Dozens of militants opened fire on a mosque in Sinai affiliated with the Sufi strain of Islam, which extremists view as heretical.
By the fourth century, Gnostic texts depicting her spiritual leadership were deemed heretical and excluded from the New Testament canon, says Sahlin.
Cuvier's comparative anatomical studies of these ancient pachyderms led him to his heretical discovery, announced in 1796, of the phenomenon of extinction.
Here's an even more heretical thought: even being intelligent is not actually that important, whether you measure importance by success, happiness, or influence.
A decade later in The Golden Compass, the Magisterium has established an oppressive control on society, stamping out ideas that it deems heretical.
Until that time comes, I cannot in good faith remain a Democrat, as heretical that may make me in the eyes of some.
And, in some way — which might strike some as heretical — York's black square improves upon the historical one by eliminating the wide band.
The network was obviously emboldened by the success of The Walking Dead, as Preacher is excessively weird and steeped in heretical religious commentary.
And a position once considered near-heretical, that globalisation itself seems to create forces that erode political support for integration, is gaining currency.
They have also stoked sectarian tension by destroying the shrines of Sufi mystics and declaring Ibadism, the sect of Libya's Berber minority, heretical.
In doing so, the extremist group justified the destruction on religious grounds — that its harsh brand of Islamic law deems such things heretical.
Though Ahmadi beliefs are strongly rooted in Islam, other sects consider them heretical, and they are declared non-Muslims under the Pakistani Constitution.
Saudi Shi'ites complain of marginalisation in the birthplace of Islam, which follows the rigid Wahhabi Sunni school that views the minority sect as heretical.
No, believes the Imam, who sends Ahmed and his cousin as mouthpieces; it is heretical to learn Arabic through means other than the Koran.
Finally, Ammon Bundy preached the latest chapter in the family's gospel, emphasizing that environmentalists are "an enemy to humans" practicing their own heretical religion.
The film begins with patriarch William (Ralph Ineson), who looks like the world's most depressed pirate, banished from the Puritan colony for heretical stubbornness.
Saudi Shi'ites complain of marginalization in the birthplace of Islam, which follows the rigid Wahhabi Sunni school that views the minority sect as heretical.
Scholars call this "Darwin's Delay," and many believe it was due to his fear that others would judge his heretical for the times theory.
It would be heretical to say their wit, vitality and acumen leap off the page, because Mr Griffiths does not think words work that way.
" The letter does not accuse the Pope himself of being a heretic, but of supporting "heretical positions" on "marriage, the moral life and the Eucharist.
The new preacher, he said, denounced the Barelvi and Shiite beliefs as false and heretical, dividing the community and setting off years of bitter argument.
For Islamic State, the village was a target because of its ties to Sufism, a mystical form of Islam that hardline Islamist groups consider heretical.
She wrote that "lovemaking was a thing people sometimes engaged in for its own sake, without any desire for procreation," another of her heretical notions.
Refugees from the Ahmadi sect, a Muslim reformist movement seen as heretical by conservative Muslims, cannot return to their homes, which were destroyed by mobs.
Denounced by the Catholic church as common heretical rogues, the head of a church cleansed of graven images and the caliph united against idol-worshipping Rome.
Primitive societies have developed, but the mere concept of sight is considered so heretical that warriors are dispatched to kill anyone who might believe in it.
She's pulled into an adventure to save a kidnapped friend from an oppressive church known as the Magisterium, which suppresses thought and research it considers heretical.
The goal of zero patient preventable harm was once viewed as heretical and it is now a common safety goal across more than 100 children's hospitals.
There is no excuse to be made for this, but a reason for it might have been that the existence of communities considered heretical was tenuous.
Grayson, the emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield, said that other Christians in South Korea view groups that question the authority of Christ as heretical.
The second installment of the exuberantly heretical graphic memoir of Mr. Sattouf, a French-Syrian cartoonist who once had a weekly comic strip in Charlie Hebdo.
Spinoza's trouble with organized religion started early: at the age of twenty-three, he was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam for his heretical views.
In Death of the Outsider, the religious Abbey have taken over, and they are annexing all the magical ("heretical") objects, and of course, mistreating their witchy prisoners.
What's more, Law sells the character with such conviction that there seems to be no limit to the outlandish, halfway-heretical things he'll say for shock value.
The vice-president-elect wants the country to adopt Islamic law and is keen to ban homosexual acts as well as some Muslim sects he considers heretical.
Cutting against the magazine's exuberance—but also propelled along by it—is a heretical strain of ­gimlet-eyed, anxious ambivalence about who will pay for the future.
Still, many climate scientists until recently regarded such proposals as fringe, if not heretical, arguing that they undermine the case for urgent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Still, isn't it almost heretical to say that profits matter more than sales for a company that many still consider to be, first and foremost, a retailer?
Now he is causing more ructions in the main opposition, with a series of statements that are heretical to those on the far left of Israeli politics.
They hate the heretical—as they see them—Shia Muslims of Iran almost as much as they hate the "Crusaders and Jews" of Washington and Tel Aviv.
But a majority — including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq and Malaysia — maintain strong restrictions on non-Muslim (and in some cases certain "heretical" Muslim) beliefs and practices.
From Studio 54, which had opened 18 months earlier, he swiped the idea of an exclusive door policy, a heretical idea within the egalitarian world of punk.
Before his torture and execution in 1525, the German Protestant pastor Thomas Müntzer — a heretical contemporary of Martin Luther — led the Peasants' War while flying a rainbow flag.
His family included preachers from the ultra-conservative Salafi school of Sunni Islam, which sees many other branches of the faith as heretical and other religions as anathema.
There, she discovers that a major church has been studying a phenomenon called Dust, an elementary particle that imparts consciousness in humans, something that the organization deems heretical.
There, at a bar called Kelly's Korner, a very large man named T.C. railed against the heretical idea of ranch dressing being served alongside his flats and drumettes.
But by participating in a kind of bait and switch — putting forth potentially heretical ideas, then formally denying them — Francis leaves himself open to the charge of disingenuousness.
The music's plurality of style, embodied by Ms. Spalding and so many others, amounts to an extension of the jazz tradition rather than any kind of heretical crisis.
But Republicans don't seem equipped to pull off anything complicated, they don't look united enough to take political risks, and they aren't ideologically ready to pass anything heretical.
Which brings us to the second, perhaps slightly heretical point: Maybe pricing carbon, directly raising energy costs for average consumers, just isn't that popular as a headline policy.
It wasn't long, however, before both scientists and the church ganged up on the practice, fearing it had become too powerful — either as a fossil science or heretical spirituality.
That September, Thiel penned an opinion piece for the Washington Post that highlighted Trump's antiestablishment nature and "heretical denial of Republican dogma," while largely ignoring the candidate's policy initiatives.
Critics have for years vilified the movement as a heretical and dangerous cult and questioned its murky finances and how it indoctrinates followers, known in derogatory terms as "Moonies".
However, he still complains that Mr Khan is too friendly with Ahmadis, a Muslim sect he considers heretical, and has not allowed women to take part in the march.
An American psychologist named Edward Tolman made the heretical assertion that rats, until then regarded as mere slaves to behavioral reinforcement or punishment, create ''cognitive maps'' of their habitat.
Rumi flirted with some of these same heretical boundaries, irking local sultans and dour jurisdictional types who often, in the end, forgave him, for he was the great Mowlana.
The last episode left Lyra with Lord Asriel and her best friend, Roger, in a polar laboratory as the Magisterium mobilized to put an end to Asriel's heretical investigations.
At the Mass, attended by indigenous people from the Amazon, Francis also appeared to take a swipe at conservatives who have attacked parts of the synod's working document as heretical.
He has broached the idea of filing the first municipal bankruptcy in New Jersey since the Great Depression, a heretical notion in a city so dependent on free-spending visitors.
More abstractly, it's a box for the biggest, boldest, and maybe even potentially heretical ideas to escape the minds in both Cambridge and Sant'Agata Bolognese over the next few years.
While much of the Syrian leadership is drawn from an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, Islamic State espouses a radical version of Sunni Islam and considers other sects to be heretical.
Her association with the belief that God wants followers to find wealth and health — commonly called the prosperity gospel — is highly unorthodox in the faith and considered heretical by many.
Her association with the belief that God wants followers to find wealth and health — commonly called the prosperity gospel — is highly unorthodox in the faith and considered heretical by many.
In 1867, John Muir, one of the first Western environmentalists, walked from Louisville, Kentucky, to Florida, a trip that inspired his first heretical thoughts about the meaning of being human.
Compared with thousands of other Yazidis, followers of a centuries-old religion whom the militant group considers heretical and has killed or enslaved by the thousands, she considers herself fortunate.
"Little Cloud is a simplified symbol of light and hope, a happy little gift," Mr. Borkson said with an earnestness that is unusual, if not heretical, in the art world.
Many in Iran also accused Saudi Arabia of fomenting takfirism, a radical Sunni ideology espoused by groups such as Islamic State that regards Shi'ism and other Islamic sects as heretical.
Even as certain pages proved a slog, certain scenes repetitive, even as I entertained heretical thoughts about pruning certain sections, or striking them entirely, these choices follow a certain logic.
Thousands of women belonging to the Yazidi faith, which the Islamic State considers heretical, were sold into sexual servitude, their rapes endorsed by an Islamic court with a stamped contract.
ISIS has been warning that the mosque would be attacked for more than a year for its affiliation with a mystical Sufi order called the Jaririyah considered heretical by the militants.
"The idea of peace talks are far less heretical now than they were six years ago," Walsh, who has spent nearly a decade working on the Afghan peace process, told me.
"The police escorted the thugs," said Giwa, adding that he believed authorities were being influenced by Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's official ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim school that often labels Shi'ites as heretical.
They have attacked the synod's working document as heretical, including what they say is an implicit recognition of forms of paganism and pantheism practiced by indigenous people, such as nature worship.
The Islamic State had used the city as a propaganda windfall, making a sport of pilfering and vandalizing prized antiquities it considered heretical and using the Roman theater for public beheadings.
Viewed as progressive by many in the West, and heretical in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries, Ahmadiyya is the only Muslim organization to endorse the complete separation of church and state.
The Assad family is part of the state's 10 percent minority Alwai religious denomination, a ninth century heterodox offshoot of Shiite Islam considered heretical by most Sunnis and extremist by most Shiites.
Gorky has been called the last Surrealist and the first Abstract Expressionist, though his methodical approach to art making, lucidly articulated by the exhibition, could be seen as heretical to both camps.
Amid reports of intense closed-door deliberations over who should be secretary of state, Ms. Conway had seemed intent on committing a heretical political act by an aide: boxing in her boss.
The trouble is, the very idea of sight is heretical — much like witchcraft in colonial America, troublesome people are accused of having the ability to see as justification for burning them alive.
Conservative Catholics have attacked the synod's working document as heretical, including what they say is an implicit recognition of forms of paganism and pantheism practised by indigenous people, such as nature worship.
The League is a secret society for children whose members wear badges and attend extra church services, and they're encouraged to inform on any adults they catch doing anything sinful or heretical.
The Salafist movement - which is strongly influenced by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school of Islam - sees many other branches of the faith as heretical has been linked to militant groups such as Islamic State.
This might sound heretical, but they might have just been what SXSW needed for a standout metal showcase, or standout metal something had Babymetal decided to take over Fader Fort for a day.
In trying to build a singular religious faction that agreed on some core issues (like abortion), the Republican Party has courted that subculture, even though many evangelicals consider prosperity theology to be heretical.
It is as though, rather than trying to reconcile Mr. Trump's heretical views with conservative orthodoxy, the writers of the platform simply opted to go with the most extreme version of every position.
Traditional Wahhabi doctrine in Saudi Arabia is ultra-conservative, viewing Shi'ites as heretical, but the authorities welcome them to the haj and accepts Iranian visits to the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
" Without specifically mentioning Francis, he argued that a pope's authority was not "magical, but derives from his obedience to the Lord," and that the actions of a "heretical or sinful" pope were "void.
This historical novel exploring the life of Jacob Frank, the Polish leader of a heretical Jewish splinter group that converted to Islam and then Catholicism, ranges nomadically across the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires.
According to satellite images recently obtained by the Associated Press, the terrorist group has destroyed the country's oldest Christian monastery, Dair Mar Elia — also known as St. Elijah's Monastery — which it deems heretical.
Mr. Pearson confessed his change of heart in the pulpit and endured a fall from grace as meteoric as his rise, with even Mr. Roberts pleading with him to take back his heretical words.
What Abar eventually discovers is that her grandfather, Will Reeves, is Hooded Justice, which would seem like a heretical rewriting of Moore and Gibbons's source material if it weren't so convincingly and powerfully wrought.
The ultra-hardline Sunni militants of IS, whose many foes are advancing on a number of fronts in both Syria and Iraq, are avowed enemies of Shi'ites, whom they consider a heretical group within Islam.
It remains to be seen how far Saudi Arabia can prevent anti-Shi'ite outbursts by its media or on social media, since Wahhabism, the kingdom's official ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim school, regards Shi'ism as heretical.
When we next see Lyra Belacqua, she's 12, a ward of the college, dreaming of being an explorer and begging the mercurial Asriel to take her on one of his scientific (and possibly heretical) expeditions.
Or they might choose to highlight it alongside other "heretical" ideas from across history, showing that Christianity has never been a monolith, and that many self-professed Christians had beliefs at odds with official doctrine.
After an overloaded ferry sank in 2014, killing more than 300 people, South Koreans were shocked to learn that the ferry company was controlled by a religious leader often condemned as heretical like Mr. Lee.
By 1996, bin Laden had come to blame his problems, and the problems of the Muslim world, on the United States, which he saw as a heretical imperial power little different from the Soviet Union.
Angry clerics declared this to be a veiled concession to the 4m-odd Pakistanis who belong to the Ahmadi sect and so believe that another prophet followed Muhammad—a view seen as heretical by doctrinaire Muslims.
There was "no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons," Governor Ronald Reagan said on the day of the protest, words that would be heretical in today's gun rights movement.
True, female Gods have been considered heretical in many cultures for millennia, and the suggestion that God is anything other than an old, white man in the sky is, for some, still a deeply troubling thought.
The long struggle between the Assads and the extremists who denounce the Assads' Alawite sect as heretical and who claim to represent the majority Sunni population of Syria is described briefly but with balance and restraint.
" It was, they said, "a paper that adhered to the journalistic standards of The Times but included heretical touches such as a cartoon and book review on the front page and a New York Living page.
ISIS , which seeks to create a global Islamic caliphate, does not recognize the existence of Afghanistan as a sovereign country, and accuses the Taliban of practicing a lax interpretation of Islam that accommodates heretical Pashtun customs.
Heretical as it may sound, I skipped the poems and went straight to the stories — about the people, crazed cows, hooch-making, and more — which so vividly and viscerally bring home what's been lost to modernity.
To McSwain these policies are heretical: There is a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this city that is promoted and championed by District Attorney Larry Krasner — and I am fed up with it.
It is hard to account for thousands of Jews virtually overnight worshiping a human being as divine when everything about their religion and culture conditioned them to believe that was not only impossible, but deeply heretical.
While at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland, he published a theory—first seen as heretical, then brilliant—that immune cells reshuffle their DNA to create millions of different antibodies from a small number of genes.
Mr. Ponnuru likened Mr. Cruz's opposition to ethanol subsidies in Iowa — once considered heretical in a presidential primary — to Mr. Goldwater's unpopular suggestion in 1964, while campaigning in Tennessee, that the Tennessee Valley Authority should be sold.
The attack injected a new element into Egypt's struggle with militants because most of the victims were Sufi Muslims, who practice a mystical form of Islam that the Islamic State and other Sunni extremist groups deem heretical.
Militants told villagers to cease any cooperation with Egyptian security services, and instructed them not to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday with rituals from the Sufi tradition, a mystical branch of Islam considered heretical by some fundamentalists.
" His new book, "The Tangled Tree," is the biography of an idea — a heretical, groundbreaking idea — and its many midwives, chief among them Carl Woese, "the most important biologist of the 20th century you've never heard of.
The problem today is that the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II in 2000: Many Orthodox Christians consider the scene, and the suggestion of a premarital affair by the czar, offensive to the point of being heretical.
White and the "prosperity gospel" she preaches have been panned as heretical by many evangelical and orthodox Christians, and she also faced criticism last year as her appointment came just as she was promoting her latest book.
He and others had branded as heretical synod documents that included the proposal, which sought to allow older married deacons who are proven leaders of remote Catholic communities and have stable families to be ordained as priests.
As more people embrace the heretical "post-PC" lifestyle, turning to mobile devices more often than desktops and notebooks, people are buying fewer computers, while still apparently favoring them for work-related tasks or Fortnite streams on Twitch.
Except Trump the Crusader is targeting the press as his heretical entity, pointing them out as a source of harmful misinformation that must be destroyed (even as he himself proves to be a frequent source of harmful misinformation).
He also has a well-judged sense that if the Republicans, many of whom would consider such steps heretical, could only find answers to working-class economic grievances they might rule, in a culturally conservative country, almost untrammelled.
The Assads are members of the Alawite sect, a minority Shi'ite offshoot that hardline Sunni Islamists regard as heretical and whose members have been given many of the top posts in the bureaucracy, military and internal security forces.
Analysts mentioned his competition for donors and backing with Jeb Bush, another Floridian, and his role in a doomed, bipartisan push for immigration reform in the Senate in 2013, a pragmatic stance regarded as heretical by many conservatives.
Some might call the very concept of hop-less beer heretical, but trust me when I say that medicinal beers are a where it's at—plus, if brewed properly, they can naturally cure you of what ails you.
Since then, Sessions's own United Methodist Church — a mainline Protestant denomination — has taken the all-but-unprecedented step of formally charging Sessions with child abuse, racial discrimination, and dissemination of heretical doctrine in his use of Romans 13.
"The establishment doesn't want to admit it, but Trump's heretical denial of Republican dogma about government incapacity is exactly what we need to move the party — and the country — in a new direction," Thiel wrote in The Washington Post.
He was appalled when it began demolishing holy sites that it deemed heretical, especially an ancient Islamic shrine that was said to entomb the Biblical figure Jonah (who appears in the Koran as well as in the Old Testament).
Sessions was charged with racism, child abuse, immoral behavior, and the dissemination of heretical Biblical teaching — a reference to his use of the Bible verse Romans 13 to justify Christians' submission to government policy on the issue of migration.
Ahmadis, a group that originated in British-controlled India in the 19th century who see themselves as an Islamic movement, are regarded as heretical by orthodox Muslims and forbidden from calling themselves Muslims or using Islamic symbols in their religious practices.
In November 2017, dozens of militants opened fire on a mosque in Sinai affiliated with the Sufi strain of Islam — which extremists view as heretical — killing at least 311 people, in the deadliest act of terrorism in Egypt's modern history.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but the worshipers were Sufis, whose mystical form of Islam is considered heretical by Sunni extremists, and the Egyptian military has been battling an affiliate of the Islamic State in the Sinai for years.
The heretical idea of extinction then became an essential preamble to Darwin, whose understanding of evolution by natural selection depended in turn on the detailed study of barnacle specimens collected and preserved over long periods and for no particular reason.
Glass's opera, a portrait of the heretical Pharaoh who tried to convert Egypt to monotheism, was first seen in 1984, and marks an evolution from the stripped-down radicalism of "Einstein on the Beach" to a more conventional orchestral language.
There are arguments to be made for both Orthodox and Catholic positions, but that is the point: arguments and interpretations of the evidence must be advanced and different churches, neither of whom consider the other to be heretical, have taken different positions.
In 26.33, at the Diet of Worms—an assembly called to discuss Luther's teachings presided over by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V—Luther was asked to recant his heretical view that men and women are saved by the grace of God alone.
But the risk of runaway prices seems so remote that, at least for now, some Fed officials and leading economists are embracing what for decades has been rejected as heretical — allowing wages to keep rising without stomping on them with higher interest rates.
In one case mentioned by the report, an Ahmadi Muslim, following a creed which is considered heretical by many followers of Islam, felt uncomfortable because his words were translated from Urdu by an interpreter, apparently a mainstream Muslim, who was clearly unsympathetic.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's heretical positions on foreign policy are multiplying.
Sure, there are those who consider it heretical for the newly named chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America to turn his back on New York Fashion Week, which has just begun, and show in the town he calls home.
Lyra, raised as a foundling by the scholars, has the run of the school, blissfully ignorant of the political-religious infighting around her, until the man she knows as her uncle Asriel (James McAvoy), turns up claiming the stunning — and heretical — discovery of another universe.
Despite his legal woes, Grimm, who described himself in an interview as "technically a felon," was still well-regarded among area Republicans, and had spent months attacking Donovan for voting against Trump's tax bill and for uttering heretical ideas about undocumented immigrants someday becoming citizens.
What Diderot faced was not the bored disapproval or the condescending tolerance that Christians now complain of coming from liberal élites; it was actual persecution, a desire to imprison those guilty of heretical thought, to close their mouths and eradicate all trace of their books.
Mr. Cheng first began exploring these principles in 2009 in his K-11 Art Mall developments in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which originally combined art and shopping elements — a mix of high and consumer culture previously seen as heretical — and then expanded from there.
This is also the assessment of Robert Mnookin, a Harvard law professor, in THE JEWISH AMERICAN PARADOX: Embracing Choice in a Changing World (PublicAffairs, $28), a lucid legal brief of a book that proposes what would amount to a revolutionary (some would say heretical) revision.
I always feel vaguely heretical rereading anything when there are so many amazing books unknown to me out there but the tide of content rises so fast, there's no keeping up so we might as well go with a sure bet once in a while.
The group's distaste for politics and sometimes idiosyncratic theology, which puts it at odds with many other Christian denominations, has made the denomination an easy target in Russia, where the Orthodox Church, a close ally of the Kremlin, views Jehovah's Witness as a heretical sect.
And if — let us say — the Amazonian synod allows for married priests in special circumstances and produces a document with faintly-heretical formulations, then as with Francis's ambiguous shift on remarriage and communion, the change will matter, but not enough to break the church.
There remains something mildly and even pleasurably heretical about the way the Boxcar Children locate the outer limits of amusement in decorous productivity—the way that, for them, there's no better use of total independence than perfectly mimicking the most respectable behaviors of adults.
"As recently as five years ago, it would have been heretical to think one can have many-body, collective dynamics in these vanishingly small (femtometer scale or smaller) systems," Dennis Perepelitsa, assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and member of the PHENIX collaboration told Gizmodo.
The discovery of these new Jupiter-sized planets that orbit close to their sun forced astronomers to contemplate a once heretical idea: that Jupiter-sized planets originate far from the mother sun, like our Jupiter, but then somehow migrate and spiral into the inner solar system.
Its security force, the Consistorial Court of Discipline (CCD), assassinates, assaults, and otherwise makes dissidents vanish, while it introduces a youth-oriented group to Malcolm's school called the The League of St. Alexander, which encourages his classmates to report potentially heretical actions of their peers or parents.
Sinosphere BEIJING — For most of its 25 years, the Chinese history magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu has been loved by moderate liberals and detested with equal passion by devotees of Mao Zedong, who reviled it as a refuge for heretical criticisms of the Chinese leader and the Communist Party.
In a first, the Upper East Side museum has invited a contemporary artist to curate and design an exhibition of centuries-old objects with her own Meissen-inspired works alongside — and stacked on, leaning against and placed in other heretical and seemingly precarious positions in relation to it.
Places of worship, artworks and archaeological remnants, libraries, museums and other treasured sites have been destroyed by extreme Islamist groups who call them pagan or heretical, including the giant Buddha statues at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in 2001, and more recently Nimrud, Palmyra and other pre-Islamic sites in Iraq and Syria.
" After Michael Tracey, another journalist who is largely dismissive of Trump-Russia reporting, wrote mockingly about the respect being paid to "our Lord and savior Mueller," Greenwald expressed fellowship by noting that the act of "asking for evidence, and refusing to believe it until you see it, is literally heretical.
A populist English translation of the New Testament by the 16th-century scholar William Tyndale got him executed by the clergy for heresy, and not long afterward the French printer and scholar Étienne Dolet was hanged and burned at the stake for a translation of Plato that was also deemed heretical.
This is why the new Apple headquarters, which has a 100,000-square-foot fitness and wellness center but no child care center, is a more telling indicator of what really matters to Silicon Valley than all the professions of gender-egalitarianism that have followed James Damore's heretical comments about sex differences.
Both Halford and Lockwood distance themselves from the more controversial aspects of their respective traditions, performing a familiar contortion of contemporary religious memoir: Priestdaddy accomplishes it right away with its heretical title, forgoing a subtle nod for an audible headshake, indicating that while the author was once Catholic, she definitely isn't any more.
In the January edition of an IS online magazine, a figure purporting to be a high level official in the Sinai affiliate of the group vowed to target Sufis, accusing them of idolatry and heretical "innovation" in religion and warning that the group will "not permit (their) presence" in Sinai or Egypt.
The worshippers at the mosque were followers of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, a branch of Islam which is seen as heretical by IS. The attackers did not rush away from the scene, even as emergency services arrived, opening fire on several ambulances, Ahmed el-Ansari, a senior government health official, told state television.
But that brings us to the second way Trump's position here is different from his usual heresies: Unlike his plan to build a giant border wall or to bar Muslim foreigners, his view on Iraq is heretical not because it violates the basic norms of human decency but rather because it breaks with party orthodoxy.
But when people say, "He makes me want to believe again," as a lapsed-Catholic journalist said to me during one of these awkward "What do you have against Pope Francis?" conversations, they aren't usually paying close attention to the battles between cardinals and theologians over whether his agenda is farsighted or potentially heretical.
It's also a good moment to question orthodoxies and received wisdom, to ask ourselves if people are not, in fact, being governed by those who would obscure the truth from them, declaring certain things heretical, even as others seek to rip the world open in ways that terrify the high priests of politics and science.
For those of you who may not be aware, US Editor for the Daily Telegraph Ruth Sherlock shook the politi-sphere this week with a tweet in which she explained that she had encountered Trump and his family at a well-known steakhouse in Manchester and overheard Trump's heretical order of a well-done ribeye steak.
Hard-line followers of Russia's dominant faith, the Orthodox Church, have lobbied for years to have Jehovah's Witnesses outlawed or at least curbed as a heretical sect, but the main impetus for the current campaign to crush a Christian group active in Russia for more than a century seems to have come from the country's increasingly assertive security apparatus.
The worshippers at the mosque were followers of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, a branch of Islam which is seen as heretical by IS. At least 235 people have been killed in Egypt after militants bombed a Sufi mosque Friday morning, before opening fire on the worshippers as they tried to escape, according to a statement by Egypt's attorney general.
The four-piece's sound—rounded out by guitarist Duncan Hay Jennings, bassist Lucas Savatti, and drummer Edan Scime Stokell—has matured considerably over the past couple of years, but their roots with DIY artist collective Heretical Objects Cooperative are still very much there on Slush, which was written, engineered, and mixed in the self-assembled studio of the band's Toronto apartment.
It assumes that absorbing a certain kind of attack from the left — Biden's too nostalgic for the bad old days, Biden's a chump if he thinks he can cut deals with Republicans — helps with voters who are nostalgic for the days of dealmaking themselves, without making it impossible to eventually unite the party in the way that staking out heretical positions might.
Asking her to choose favorites is like asking a parent which of their children they love the best, but here are a few highlights from the collection: Here, in its original Latin, albeit smaller, is Galileo's famous 1615 letter to Cosimo d'Medici's mother, laying out his (heretical) reasoning for why the Bible should not be used as a basis for scientific belief.
It also seems relevant that the contempt Weiss and her friends have for progressive identity politics wouldn't have been on the other side of public opinion then and isn't actually heretical now, shared as it is by millions of ordinary people, a broad constellation of publications and outlets, and political figures—including the sitting president of the United States—who happen to hold most of the political power in this country.
Related: The Senate Just Approved a Bill That Would Let Families of 9/11 Victims Sue Saudi Arabia A spokesman for the Saudi justice ministry could not immediately be reached for a comment on the report, first broadcast by the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV. Some Saudi Shiites complain they suffer systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia, whose majority follow a strict form of Sunni Islam that regards the minority sect as heretical.
His recent meeting with Pope Francis in Havana gained a lot of global attention, but the very fact that he parleyed with a "heretical" bishop of Rome has stirred into action some religious nationalists in Russia (including some quite influential ones) as well as some parts of his flock outside the Russian Federation: in Belarus and Moldova, some conservative clerics and monasteries have reacted to the Havana meeting by ceasing their public prayers for Kirill.
By rejecting proposed amendments that would have widened the bill's scope to include people of all religions, from more neighbouring countries, Mr Shah made clear that the intention is indeed to make India a refuge principally for Hindus (the other religions mentioned in the law together make up just 5% of India's population), even as it rejects Rohingyas from Myanmar, Uighurs from China or members of the Ahmadi sect that is branded heretical in Pakistan.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is president-elect because he didn't amen the Holy Catechism of the political left - including most notably his "heretical" promise to dismantle the left's most cherished legislation of the past eight years, the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare.

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