" In a letter to Nicholas Kratzer in 1524, Dürer wrote " because of our Christian faith we have to stand in scorn and danger, for we are reviled and called heretics.

In Canto X Circle 6 (" Where the heretics lie ") of Dante's Inferno, Epicurus and his followers are criticized for supporting a materialistic ideal when they are mentioned to have been condemned to the Circle of Heresy.

has also argued against the ostracization of scientists whose views depart from the acknowledged mainstream of scientific opinion on climate change, stating that " heretics " have historically been an important force in driving scientific progress.

I have used the term ' the earthly and visible Bethlehem ' because the heretics believed there is a different and invisible earth in which – according to some of them – the ' good ' Christ was born and crucified.

Some of them hold that one or more of the most recent popes have held and taught unorthodox beliefs, but do not go so far as to say that they have been formal heretics or have been widely and publicly judged to be heretics.

:* Cyprian wrote of them " How, when God the Father is not known -- nay, is even blasphemed -- can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ only, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?

Gregory's early policies as bishop often went against those of Basil: for instance, while his brother condemned the Sabellianist followers of Marcellus of Ancyra as heretics, Gregory may have tried to reconcile them with the church.

Some scholars take the view that " they may not have been Isamailis at all at the outset, and their conduct and customs gave plausibility to the belief that they were not merely heretics but bitter enemies of Islam.

The Shia clergy, as well as many Iranians, have continued to regard Bahá ' ís as heretics, and consequently Bahá ' ís have encountered much prejudice and sometimes persecution historically.

Human sacrifice may be a ritual practised in a stable society, and may even be conductive to enhance societal bonds ( see Sociology of religion ), both by creating a bond unifying the sacrificing community, and in combining human sacrifice and capital punishment, by removing individuals that have a negative effect on societal stability ( criminals, religious heretics, foreign slaves or prisoners of war ).

He believed that " to be obliged to do good is always an advantage and that heretics and schismatics, when forced to apply their minds to the consideration of truth, eventually lay aside their erroneous beliefs, whereas they would never have examined these matters had not authority constrained them.

many true and faithful Christians, because of the testimony of enemies, rivals, slaves and other low people — and still less appropriate — without tests of any kind, have been locked up in secular prisons, tortured and condemned like relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and properties, and given over to the secular arm to be executed, at great danger to their souls, giving a pernicious example and causing scandal to many.

Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino ( 1441 ): " The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal ; but that they will go into the " eternal fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels " ( Matthew 25: 41 ), unless before death they are joined with Her ; and that so important is the unity of this ecclesiastical body that only those remaining within this unity can profit by the sacraments of the Church unto salvation, and they alone can receive an eternal recompense for their fasts, their almsgivings, their other works of Christian piety and the duties of a Christian soldier.

Nevertheless, while he defended the idea that the Devil's power was not as strong as claimed by the orthodox Christian churches in De Praestigiis Daemonum, he defended also the idea that demons did have power and could appear before people who called upon them, creating illusions ; but he commonly referred to magicians and not to witches when speaking about people who could create illusions, saying they were heretics who were using the Devil's power to do it, and when speaking on witches, he used the term mentally ill.

Who are these people, and why have they been labeled heretics for more than 80 years?

The Council also stated that " Catholics who have girded themselves with the cross for the extermination of the heretics, shall enjoy the indulgences and privileges granted to those who go in defense of the Holy Land.

Whereas some have dared to assert concerning the nature of the reasonable soul that it is mortal, we, with the approbation of the sacred council do condemn and reprobate all those who assert that the intellectual soul is mortal, seeing, according to the canon of Pope Clement V, that the soul is [...] immortal [...] and we decree that all who adhere to like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.

In 1326, upon the successful rooting out of the last – it was believed – heretics of the south, he was made Bishop of Mirepoix in the Ariège.

with the Edict of Milan, and Christianity was made the official religion of the empire in 380 C. E .. By the eighth century Christianity had attained a clear ascendancy across Europe and neighboring regions, and a period of consolidation began marked by the pursuit of heretics, heathens, Jews, Muslims, and various other religious groups.

As a result of these disclosures the congress of rabbis in Brody proclaimed a universal Cherem ( excommunication ) against all " impenitent heretics ", and made it obligatory upon every pious Jew to seek them out and expose them.

The groups covered included Jews, Muslims, heretics such as Cathars ( repentant ones were made to wear the Cathar yellow cross ), lepers and sufferers from some other medical conditions, and prostitutes.

There is no ground in the condemnation and death of Priscillian for the charge made against the Church of having invoked the civil authority to punish heretics.

Its religious tolerance made it a welcome refuge for those escaping religious persecution elsewhere ; in the words of Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, it became “ a place of shelter for heretics ”.

In the Disquisitionum, Delrio made a connection between witches and heretics.

The Raskol movement gained in strength after the church sobor in 1666 – 1667, which had anathemized the defenders of the old faith as heretics and made decisions with regards to their punishment.

In the eyes of the king of Spain, the acts of piracy committed by former residents of Fort Caroline made the entire settlement a dangerous nest of pirates and heretics.

Accusations were also made that Deza used his position to enrich himself, confiscating the wealth of accused heretics for himself.

The key Stan uses throughout the series is actually a copy that the Ostral B heretics had made for them ( at the cost of millions of lives ) by bio-code experts.

During this time, every attempt was made to convince Basil to retract his opinions, as Alexius was keen to be known as a converter of heretics.

It closed with a series of ritual acclamations honouring the reigning Pope, the Popes who had convoked the Council, the emperor and the kings who had supported it, the papal legates, the cardinals, the ambassadors present, and the bishops, followed by acclamations of acceptance of the faith of the Council and its decrees, and of anathema for all heretics.

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

At the very beginning of his reign, he deemed it proper to promulgate by law the Church's belief in the Trinity and the Incarnation ; and to threaten all heretics with the appropriate penalties ; whereas he subsequently declared that he intended to deprive all disturbers of orthodoxy of the opportunity for such offense by due process of law.

At the Colloquy of Worms in 1557 which he attended only reluctantly, the adherents of Flacius and the Saxon theologians tried to avenge themselves by thoroughly humiliating Melanchthon, in agreement with the malicious desire of the Roman Catholics to condemn all heretics, especially those who had departed from the Augsburg Confession, before the beginning of the conference.

In November 1184 Lucius held a synod at Verona which condemned the Cathars, Paterines, Waldensians and Arnoldists, and anathematized all those declared as heretics and their abettors.

* On 14th November, a new edict by Theodosius II orders the death penalty for all " heretics " and pagans of the Empire.

It is also interesting to note that when the Spanish Ambassador in Paris heard this news, the headlines were that Darnley “ had murdered his wife, admitted the exiled heretics, and seized the kingdom .” However on the 20 March, Darnley posted a declaration denying all knowledge of or complicity in the Rizzio conspiracy.

The Edict of Châteaubriant ( 27 June 1551 ) called upon the civil and ecclesiastical courts to detect and punish all heretics and placed severe restrictions on Huguenots, including the loss of one-third of their property to informers, and confiscations.

The Edict of Amboise was generally regarded as unsatisfactory by all concerned, and the Guise faction was particularly opposed to what they saw as dangerous concessions to heretics.

He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, " between the commencement of the last month in Lent term and the end of the third week in Act term, upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics ; upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures ; upon the authority of the writings of the primitive fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church ; upon the divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; upon the divinity of the Holy Ghost ; upon the articles of the Christian faith as comprehended in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.

" " Many Protestant houses were burned, invoking the traditional purification by fire of all heretics.

In accordance with the consistent policy of inclusion and toleration by which the whole of his official life was characterized, he suspended all proceedings against heretics pending the reformation of the church by a general or national council.

: The heretics all, both short and tall --

Jewish conversos and Marranos ( Jews who converted to Christianity, but continued practicing their religion in secret ) all fell prey to his fanatical hunt for heretics.

Sedevacantists claim that they avoid much of the mainstream Catholic critique of traditionalism because their view is that, beginning with John XXIII or Paul VI, one or both of whom and all their successors they consider to be heretics, there is no valid Catholic Pope or body of bishops to whom allegiance or obedience is owed.

In the form in which they appear in the 1962 Missal, the set of prayers in which that of the Jews is included are for: the Holy Church, the Supreme Pontiff ; all orders and grades of the faithful ( clergy and laity ); public officials ( added in 1955, replacing an older prayer for the Holy Roman Emperor, not used since the abdication of Francis II in 1806 but still printed in the Roman Missal ); catechumens ; the needs of the faithful ; heretics and schismatics ; the conversion of the Jews ( without the word " perfidis "); the conversion of pagans.

Here the last sixteen years of his life were spent in incessant controversy with Jesuits, Calvinists and heretics of all kinds.

A firm adherent of the Church of Rome, Sigismund was successful in obtaining aid from Pope Martin V, who issued a bill on 17 March 1420 which proclaimed a crusade “ for the destruction of the John Wycliffe, Hussites and all other heretics in Bohemia ".

( This often quoted phrase is sourced from Caesarius of Heisterbach along with a story of all the heretics who desecrated a copy of the Gospels and threw it down from the town's walls.