Word: dissenter
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...disavowal of religious authority and its embrace of what Benedict called "the subjective 'conscience.'" For Benedict, if your conscience tells you something that differs from his teaching, it is a false conscience, a sign not of personal integrity but of sin. And so he has silenced conscientious dissent within the church and insisted on absolutism in matters like abortion, end-of-life decisions, priestly celibacy, the role of women, homosexuality and interfaith dialogue...
...Silencing the Voices of Dissent Inside the forced shutdown of Iran's most popular reformist paper, Shargh
...problem - not a part of the solution, as the White House has always argued. The warnings about Iraq only come up in about three places. But they show that key voices in the 16-agency intelligence community harbor serious doubts about the war. And clever bureaucrats have seeded that dissent throughout the executive summary...
...Silencing the Voices of Dissent Inside the forced shutdown of Iran's most popular reformist paper, Shargh
...need to cry out for a movement like the European Enlightenment to sweep away Muslim extremism. Judeo-Christianity had to go through processes like the Enlightenment and the Reformation before it could reach a point where the Catholic Pope quotes Nietzsche, publicly opposes holy wars, and encourages scholarly dissent while seeking to repair antique schisms...