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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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

It was received everywhere, but particularly in the paleontological community, as an outrageous heresy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

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

Once a principle is established as orthodox, its observance is enforced in much the same way that a religious doctrine maintains its integrity: by repressing or simply eschewing heresies.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017

But these heresies died when he read her last letter.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan