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• The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Art, Pain

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer able to dismiss the idea lightly.

  Frank B. Salisbury

  Years, Ideas, Flying

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• Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

  H. G. Wells

  Science, Sensitive, Theologian

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Book, Humanity, World

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1970). “God and the State”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Science, Yesterday

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• Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand.

  Darrel Ray

  Hands, Long, Religion

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

  James Joyce

  Mad, Police, Genius

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2290, e-artnow

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• The only interesting ideas are heresies

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, Interesting, Interesting Ideas

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.440, Macmillan

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• But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

  Umberto Eco

  Strong, Rome, People

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, Military

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.9, Booklassic

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

  Chesty Puller

  Military, Real, Marine

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• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Disappointment, Envy

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• A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Anarchy, Mental Illness, Delusion

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• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1932, Library of America

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• To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Fun, Serious Work, Anarchy

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1767, Delphi Classics

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• The Illuminati Order was preceded in the 1500's in Spain by the 'Alumbrados', a Christian heresy started by crypto Jews called 'Marranos'. The founder of the Jesuit Order, Ignatius of Loyola, was a Marrano / Alumbrado. Thus when people today argue whether it is the Jesuits or Zionists or Illuminati who are responsible for our troubles, they are really talking about the same beast.

  Henry Makow

  Christian, Order, Talking

  "Independent Historian Unveils Cabalist Conspiracy" by Henry Makow, www.henrymakow.com. September 1, 2007.

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• Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  M. M. Mangasarian

  Spiritual, Religious, Laughter

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• If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Giving, Faithful, Church

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• Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.

  Columba Marmion

  Pride, Evil, Enemy

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• Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Sound, Fuel

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.74, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Men, Creative

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• There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

  Flemming Rose

  Views, Democracy, Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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