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In a statement to AFP earlier this month, Orelien called the allegations "slander and heresy."

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Eventually, science slipped the shackles of heresy and astronomers revolutionized our understanding of Earth’s place in the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

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 ● Mar. 8, 2026

Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Mr. Pynchon, a descendant of the colonial family fictionalized in “The House of the Seven Gables,” infuses his chronicle with a modern sense of paranoia and a taste for countercultural heresies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

As Bishop of Hippo, Augustine sought to defend theological orthodoxy against various heresies.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

In the state’s lone House district, Republican Dusty Johnson is facing a primary for the usual heresies.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2022

The papal bull of 1520 excommunicating Luther from the Catholic Church, for example, accused him of promoting 41 heresies and “pestiferous errors.”

From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2017

And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton