apostasy
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Examples include apostasy laws in some Muslim-majority countries and India’s anticonversion laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
According to Harvard University’s Gutman Library, the government of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1637 banned Thomas Morton’s “The New English Canaan” for apostasy in criticizing Puritan customs and exercise of power.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
Still, I pressed on to see where the author was going with this horticultural apostasy.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
Mace could’ve taken this opportunity to lean further into apostasy.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2022
The English lawyers, following the Roman law, distinguish between heresy and apostasy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
But the apostasies that appealed to more moderate voters made him a pariah to many within his own party.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
The group is willing to call out apostasies while also offering sufficient positive reinforcement to ensure that it keeps a seat at the table.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018
Once we accept such dichotomies, we naturally look for the apostasies and hypocrisies of benighted people on the wrong side of the ethical or cognitive tracks but rarely for real understanding.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015
These apostasies have left his old allies angry and confused.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 28, 2012
It gives an account of "Seven apostasies, seven servitudes to the seven heathen nations and seven deliverances."
From The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by Josiah Blake Tidwell
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