| I see there are also websites run by ex-vegans, apostates as it were, who left the fold chiefly for health reasons. |
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| We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics. |
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| It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths. |
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| Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores. |
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| But is it reasonable, or just an article of faith in the marriage religion, that apostates must all be cynics or manipulators? |
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| Elijah berates the apostates who worship Baal, who is not answering their prayers. |
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| The importance of apostates and other religious dissidents is crucial. |
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| Unalloyed enthusiasm for anything is bound to be a mistake, so thank goodness for the critics, the skeptics, the second-thought-havers, and even the outright apostates. |
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| Additionally, it should be obvious that this passage is not commanding apostates be put to death by the fact that the early church obviously did not execute apostates. |
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| Defectors and apostates can't be fined, flogged or banished. |
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| It referred to the attackers as Kharijites, a derogatory term for apostates. |
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| For the atheists, pagans and apostates who attack the Church from the outside, the classical scenario goes thus. |
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| In the 1990s the Sahwa, a group of sheikhs, accused the royals of being liberal apostates. |
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| As a post-Quranic religion, founded after Muhammad, the Baha'i faith is often regarded as a heresy and its followers as apostates. |
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| These atheists and apostates who complain about having been baptized without their consent, are they really free today? |
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| Against the will of the apostates, their personal details are not removed from parish archives. |
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| Secondly, we never hear the atheists and apostates complain that their Moms often bathed them when they were babies, without their consent. |
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| All that being said, a very serious question must be asked: are atheists and apostates being blinded unconsciously? |
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| Moreover, a limited number of apostates have filed grievances for damages, variously charging their former religious communities with deceptive and fraudulent practices or physical and emotional duress. |
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| A senior ayatollah, Hossein Mazaheri, declared them apostates on a par with Salman Rushdie, the writer whose death was ordered in a fatwa by the late Ayatollah Khomeini. |
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| In short, on the face of things, apostates from new religions do not meet the standards of personal objectivity, professional competence, and informed understanding required of expert witnesses. |
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| Regardless of the manner of their leave-taking, apostates must take account of both their earlier conversion to and subsequent separation from a non-traditional religious movement. |
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| As welcome sources of information for a public both curious and fearful about these unfamiliar new religions, such apostates are often treated as cause celebres rather than as social outcasts. |
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| In the past, apostates were roundly condemned for abandoning their faith. |
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| While radicals readily brand Muslims who disagree with them as apostates, mainstream scholars do not respond in kind because to do so is takfir or heresy. |
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| But there are some voluntary apostates from new religious movements who leave deeply embittered and harshly critical of their former religious associations and activities. |
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| The strategy of conservative forces has been to file a court case to get dissident writers forcefully divorced from their spouses under the excuse that their writings proves that they are apostates. |
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| This principle has been used in countries such as Egypt, Pakistan and others to bring blasphemy charges against apostates. |
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| It notes that it doesn't put bombs in public places, and insists that any civilians who die as a result of one of its attacks on the army or the police die as martyrs, not as apostates. |
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| Shi'ites are considered apostates by Sunni militants, whose resurgence is blamed by the government partly on the impact of the increasingly sectarian war in neighboring Syria. |
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