Word: hereticism
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Fiqhter Turned Quaker. But Ned Coxere had no patriotic scruples against fighting for whichever flag he chanced to be sailing under. He fought now for King, now for Parliament, in the English Civil War. When he was a prisoner aboard a Spanish man o' war, one of his captors...
To almost every labor-union member, a picket line is sacrosanct: he would rather see than cross one. Last week the hair on union ears bristled at a heretic's cry. Said an editorial in the Teamster, organ of the powerful Teamsters union:
White-haired Dr. Ehrenhaft commands scientific respect: he was formerly director of the famed Physical Institute of the University of Vienna. He is also a noted heretic. In 1910 he tangled with Caltech's brilliant Robert Andrews Millikan, then a young professor at the University of Chicago, who had...
All his life thereafter Paul strove "to fuse into one person . . . the two Pauls, Paul the Jew and Paul the Greek." He was considered a heretic by his Jewish brethren not because he believed that Jesus was the Messiah, but because he believed that He was the Son of God...
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.