To answer this question, we must first understand the implications of their definitions.
A heretic is a person who practices heresy; heresy is belief or opinion that is contrary and deviates from mainstream, or orthodox doctrine. It usually applies to Christianity.
This happened mostly in the middle-ages and renaissance era, but most prominently during the Protestant Reform from the Catholic Church.
At the time, the Catholic Church was the main religious institution in the Western world, and held tremendous influence. Some people began to believe that the Catholic Church had become hypocritical, fraudulent and corrupt, (for good reason), and decided to reform.
Such leaders as Martin Luther and others started this "heretical" revolution, and churches that spring from this are Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Adventist, Anglican, Pentecostal etc.
In effect, people who were "avoided" and "called heretics" were those who, historically, disagreed with the Catholic Church in any way.
The church would send priests and friars to find heretics by employing tactics such as surveillance, informants, and inquisition courts. These individuals would investigate communities and question locals to identify any potential heretical beliefs or practices, often using coercion or threats to obtain information. Once suspected heretics were found, they would be brought before ecclesiastical authorities for judgment and punishment.
The people of Judea are called Jews or Hebrew people.
counterfeit, false, illegitimate, sham, unreal, affected, deceiving, deceptive, dishonest, insincere, misleading
People who don't believe in God are called Atheists. People who are open to the concept of God but arent convinced by the arguments from religious schoclars are called Agnostics.
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Catholics called them heretics, they called themselves protestants.
Those people that contradict the Bible are heretics.
.Roman Catholic AnswerMost of the people who protested against the Church in the sixteenth century were heretics and apostates. Today they are, more politically correct, known as "protestant reformers" by those who followed them.
The church's attacks on heretics were called inquisitions. These were formal investigations and trials conducted by the church to identify and punish individuals who held beliefs contrary to its teachings.
At first they were persecuted, often called heretics.
masons were people who claim to be descendents of the knights teplar or the crusaders who were tortured do to there miss interpretataion of the bible being called heretics!!
They are said to be heretics.
The heretics were those who were unfaithful to religion after the catastrophe in the late middle ages, where 3 popes were elected all at once. The religious people wanted to eliminate these heretics, which was one of the fundamental reasons for the reformation.
The people targeted for their religions were Jews, Muslims, and heretics.
Roadside Heretics was created in 2002.
Young Heretics was created in 2009.
Heretics of Dune was created in 1984.