Editing Dissent (section)

===Heresy===
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[[Heresy]] is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of such claims or beliefs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.reference.com/browse/heresy?s=t |title=Heresy &#124; Define Heresy at Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2013-04-15}}</ref> Heresy is distinct from both [[apostasy]], which is the explicit renunciation of one's religion, principles or cause,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reference.com/browse/Apostasy |title=Apostasy &#124; Learn everything there is to know about Apostasy at |publisher=Reference.com |access-date=2013-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717065224/http://www.reference.com/browse/apostasy |archive-date=2013-07-17 }}</ref> and [[blasphemy]], which is an impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blasphemy |title=Definitions of "blasphemy" at Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2015-11-27}}</ref>

The term is usually used to refer to violations of important [[religious law|religious]] teachings, but is used also of views strongly opposed to any generally accepted ideas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/heresy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720065026/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/heresy|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 20, 2012|title=heresy – definition of heresy in English from the Oxford dictionary|work=oxforddictionaries.com}}</ref> It is used in particular in reference to [[Heresy in Christianity|Christianity]], [[Heresy in Judaism|Judaism]], and [[Bid‘ah|Islam]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MwuUAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22heretics+rather+than+critics%22&pg=PA62 Daryl Glaser, David M. Walker (editors), ''Twentieth-Century Marxism'' (Routledge 2007] {{ISBN|978-1-13597974-4}}), p. 62</ref>