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The general terms are:

heresy - expressing a belief counter to those held by a church or faith

apostasy - renouncing one's former religion or belief

blasphemy - a statement expressing contempt or irreverence toward the sacred

Galileo was charged and convicted of heresy for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun, which violated the tenet of the Roman Catholic Church that Earth was the center of the universe.

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