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The most common use we attribute to the word heretic is to designate one who proposes or holds opinions that contrast with orthodoxy or with all those ideas that are considered absolute and unquestionable in a given Social context or in what a proposal proposes religion.

In the specific case of religion, an individual who despite belonging to a certain religion will be called a heretic. practice, questions it in some aspect, either expressing a criticism or questioning some precept that it proposes.

When a person is part of a social group or professes determined belief religious, it will be required, as a basic condition of that membership, that is committed to respecting all those ideas, dogmas or beliefs that they hold. Meanwhile, when this does not occur, that is, the person opposes some postulates, then he will be identified as a heretic for that situation.

In the present is a practice that has fortunately been largely banished, however, in the past, it turned out to be very common to cruelly persecute someone who professed a different idea in religious, social or cultural matters.

politics. Furthermore, those persecutions that were carried out were usually violent and could even end with the murder of the one or those who demonstrated contrary to the proposed order. In the mildest cases the person was excommunicated, but in the most virulent they were tortured to death, in many cases.

In the Christian religion, to cite one example, it was certainly common for those who dared to speak out against the dogmas held by the Catholic Church to be persecuted and killed.

One of the most notorious cases that in the history of the Catholic Church are considered heresy was that of Protestantism, when Christian groups back in the 16th century broke away from the Catholic Church after openly criticizing many of its dogmas.

We also use this word rather colloquial in those cases in which we want to express that a person behaves in an absolutely insolent and daring way. This child is a heretic, you can't insult his parents like that..

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