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A belief that defied official doctrine often got its holder condemned or executed throughout history.
means A belief or opinion that defies the official doctrine of a group — especially a religious one — and gets you branded a dangerous dissenter rather than just wrong.
from From Greek 'hairesis,' meaning simply 'a choosing' or 'a taking for oneself' — it originally described a school of thought or a chosen sect, no different from picking a philosophy class. Through Latin 'haeresis,' the Christian church narrowed it into something far less neutral: choosing wrong beliefs, deviating from orthodoxy. The irony sits right in the root — heresy began as the mere act of thinking for yourself, and ended up being punished as the gravest crime against collective belief.
- origin
- greek haeresis meant simply a choice
- irony
- today's orthodoxy was often yesterday's heresy
- power move
- label dissent heresy, skip the debate