Crossword-Solution: HERETICS
We have 12 clues for the answer “HERETICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Challengers of religious teachings | 1 answer |
| Church challengers | 1 answer |
| Dogma disputers | 1 answer |
| False teachers | 1 answer |
| Ones who dispute dogma | 1 answer |
| Some Renaissance-era scientists | 1 answer |
| Torquemada's targets | 1 answer |
| Unbelievers | 2 answers |
| Inquisition targets | 3 answers |
| Dissenters. | 4 answers |
| Nonconformists | 7 answers |
| DISPUTER DOGMA | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HERETICS (5)
But the feeling of race was also strong in him, and he could not help regretting that liberty must come to Texas through an alien people--“heretics, too”--he muttered, carrying the thought out aloud.
Who shall undertake to judge what is really small and what is great? Thus when in the year 1821 Don Diego Salvador bethought him that if it paid the heretics in England to import the bark of his cork oaks, it would pay him also to found a factory by which the corks might be cut and sent out ready made, surely at first sight no very vital human interests would appear to be affected.
And then, with respect to the present combat in Spain, the gratitude which that country evinced to England after the French, by means of English armies, had been expelled,—gratitude evinced by discouraging the trade of England on all occasions, and by offering up masses in thanksgiving when the English heretics quitted the Spanish shores,—ought now to induce England to exhaust and ruin herself, for the sake of hunting Don Carlos out of his mountains.
These fellows are a pestilent set of heretics, whom we would gladly see burnt; they are, with the most untiring perseverance, and in spite of divers minatory declarations of the holy father, scattering their books abroad through all Europe, and have caused many people in Catholic countries to think that hitherto their priesthood have endeavoured, as much as possible, to keep them blinded.
Melville, president of the National Industrial, was a fanatically religious man, with as keen a nose for heretics as for rotten spots in collateral.
Quotes with HERETICS (3)
The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposi…
Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish …
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).