| On the contrary, they clearly conflict on issues of intra-group dissent such as proselytization, apostasy, heresy, and mandatory education. |
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| Anyone seeking to leave the movement was declared an enemy of God and threatened with death for apostasy and desertion. |
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| It is very difficult to find discussion of heresy or apostasy or even of dissent in Asian thought and literature. |
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| However, the reintroduction of true gospel doctrine into those periods of apostasy required a belief in continued divine revelation. |
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| The psalmist praises Yahweh for remaining faithful to God's people despite their long history of sin and apostasy. |
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| The heresy and apostasy of the MP, like all apostatical movements in history, developed and deepened over time. |
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| This refrain must be one of the most lyrical expressions of political apostasy ever written. |
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| She wanted adequate safeguards against dowry, bigamy, adultery, and apostasy in the new legislation. |
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| Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy. |
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| After discovering the manipulation of my passions for political ends, I committed apostasy and left my evangelical church. |
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| He imposed quotas on imported Japanese cars and saved Detroit, though he was denounced for apostasy and heresy. |
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| It's not so much God versus Satan as a war between faith and doubt, between belief and apostasy. |
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| When lack of assent begins to appear, it may not indicate heresy or apostasy, but herald dramatic development. |
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| To believe something with a perfect faith, to be incapable of apostasy, is a sign of fidelity to the group and loyalty to the cause. |
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| As such, apostasy must be understood as a public rather than a private occurrence. |
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| This apostasy beggared you and made you believe you are fatherless... How I pity you! |
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| You will thus have arrived at the peak of the purification, of the great tribulation and of the apostasy. |
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| In the past, the death penalty has been handed down and carried out in apostasy cases, but it has never before been set down in law. |
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| The death penalty has been carried out in Iran for apostasy under Sharia law but never before set in criminal law. |
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| What was punishable under the Penal Code was incitement to apostasy, which could constitute a threat to peace and public order. |
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| The death sentence on Dr Hashem Aghajari for apostasy on the basis of some obscure theological dispute is incomprehensible to the West. |
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| In Saudi Arabia, blogger Roshdi Algadir was arrested on 4 November for posting a poem on his blog and accused of commiting apostasy. |
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| If Mrs El Saadawi is found guilty of apostasy, she will have to divorce, which is a violation of her private life. |
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| Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world. |
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| No one is known to have been executed for apostasy in Sudan since 1991, when it was made a capital crime. |
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| It's for the crime of apostasy that Ayatollah Khomenei sent death squads for Salman Rushdie. |
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| As the prosecutor called for the death penalty, accusing the editor of apostasy, the abandonment of the faith, the sentence appeared to have been a compromise. |
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| The state's criminalisation of apostasy is always subject to political manipulation and indicates an absolute negation of individual rights and freedom. |
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| You may inform the Church that you are no longer a member by writing a letter of apostasy and sending it to the priest at the church where you were baptized. |
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| Nasser al-Omar, an influential cleric, called for him to be tried in a Sharia court for apostasy, which is punishable by death. |
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| For another year I fought the dread of my apostasy being discovered. |
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| Later, repenting of his apostasy, he imposed upon himself the sacrifice of not speaking for a whole year except to pray and to instruct others in the faith. |
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| In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy. |
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| In the latter he neatly skewered the hypocrisy, apostasy, materialism and social snobbery that characterized the prevailing attitude towards religion among North American high society. |
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| Mr. AMOR recalled that freedom of religion included the right to change one's religion and that consequently, the provisions of Sudanese legislation which punished apostasy were in violation of the Covenant. |
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| A global outcry erupted in May after Ishag was sentenced under sharia law to hang for apostasy. |
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| Taha was executed days after being convicted of apostasy in 1985 on the basis of his opposition to Sudan's interpretation of Sharia law. |
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| Worse, they claim the right to declare takfir, or apostasy among Muslims. |
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| According to their teaching, a period of universal apostasy followed the death of the Twelve Apostles. |
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| With regards to civil law, the Syariah courts has jurisdiction in personal law matters, for example marriage, inheritance, and apostasy. |
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| In Pakistan, laws against blasphemy and apostasy mean that the state takes an active part in the persecution and sometimes judicial murder of the unorthodox. |
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| He had among other colleagues at the noviciate, writer François Hertel whom he spiritually supported even after his apostasy in the years after the war, when Hertel sadly exiled himself to Paris. |
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| Under many sharia systems, apostasy is still punishable by death. |
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| This was instigated by his enemies in an attempt to embarrass the Poet Laureate and highlight his apostasy from radical poet to supporter of the Tory establishment. |
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| The controversy erupted during Diocletian's persecution when some clergy handed over the Scriptures to civil authorities, an act regarded as apostasy by Donatists. |
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