heretics

The Islamic State interprets certain bits of Sura 47 to mean they should behead disbelievers and heretics.

It's absurd, but it also performs a social function similar to the persecution of witches, heretics, and old eccentrics.

Iranians practice Shia Islam, which makes them heretics in the eyes of the (Sunni) Islamic State.

The point about them not being Free Software heretics appears to apply equally well to Matchstick.

Consider religion instead, it's a lot more unapologetic about simply declaring who the heretics are.

Decreeing a politically-correct gospel and punishing heretics for denying it doesn't make it true.

I suspect there are many more heretics we don't know about, especially among the non-tenured or not-yet-tenured in academia.

I read through 'til about halfway through Heretics of Dune before asking myself why I was still reading and stopped.

Cap-and-trade has the look of indulgences and the treatment of heretics.

The Free Software movement needs a mechanism for dealing with heretics.

Threats (see religion and eternal damnation for all heretics).

> Finally, if you make it this far, Chapterhouse and Heretics are once again quite fun reads and re-reads.

People who disagree with the "narrative" of equality aren't heretics.

I got as far as half-way through Heretics of Dune when I suddenly asked myself, "Why are you still reading this?" and stopped.

I once took a class at a Jesuit university named "Witches, saints and heretics." The TL;DR was that these are not disjoint groups of people.

I'm sure there's lots lost in translation, but what I got out of it was more in the area of feeling that the sanctity of the mountain (in a religion-of-nature manner) was violated by "heretics".

Heretics were people the Church didn't agree with, saints were those whose actions were approved by the Church.

Heretics and Chapterhouse are a very interesting continuation, but feel more like the beginning of a new series based in the same universe (and an incomplete one, at that).

I like this expanded metaphor, from the book Heretics: 'Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down.