He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!

Edwin Markham

Tags: friend love poem wit heretic rebel

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The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

Rachel Hartman

Tags: heretic patron-saints st-yirtrudis

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Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.

Matthew Hammond

Tags: heretic heresy blasphemy killed burned ascension burned-at-the-stake executed unitarian

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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Thomas Gold

Tags: science age virtue bravery brave intolerance heretic hypothesis heresy timid stake burned

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