Editing Religious persecution (section)

==Persecution of non-believers or irreligion==
{{Main|Heresy|Infidel|Irreligion|Blasphemy}}
{{See also|Christian heresy|Heresy in Orthodox Judaism|Islam and blasphemy|Blasphemy law|Apostasy}}
The persecution of beliefs that are deemed [[schism]]atic is one thing; the persecution of beliefs that are deemed heretical or blasphemous is another. Although a public disagreement on secondary matters might be serious enough, frequently, it has only led to [[religious discrimination]]. On the other hand, the public renunciation of the core elements of a religious doctrine under the same circumstances would have put one in far greater danger. While [[dissenter]]s from the official Church only faced fines and imprisonment in Protestant England, six people were executed for heresy or blasphemy during the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]], and two other people were executed in 1612 during the reign of [[James I of England|James I]].<ref name="John Coffey 2000, p. 26">John Coffey (2000), p. 26</ref>

Similarly, heretical sects like [[Catharism|Cathars]], [[Waldensians]] and [[Lollardy|Lollards]] were brutally suppressed in Western Europe, but in the borderlands of Eastern Europe, at the same time, Catholic Christians and 'schismatic' Orthodox Christians lived side by side after the [[East-West Schism]].<ref>Benjamin j. Kaplan (2007), ''Divided by Faith, Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe'', p. 3</ref>