Sentences with phrase «heretical opinions»
"heretical opinions" means ideas or beliefs that go against accepted or widely held beliefs or teachings. They are seen as going against established norms or doctrines. Full definition
For its part, the Spanish Inquisition eliminated all the Jews, Muslims, and Protestants, although it sometimes drove heretical opinions underground, with baleful consequences for the Catholic faith.
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Though raised in the Jewish faith and receiving a rabbinical education, Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656.
On the 26th February 1616, Galileo, under threat of torture, agreed «to abandon and cease to teach his false, impious, and heretical opinions».
[Johnson] boldly and simply stated that he would have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which drew boos, as did his heretical opinion that drivers licenses might be a legitimate state function.