apostate

How To Use apostate In A Sentence

• They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
• Furthermore she claims the Koran is a text that is 'violent, incendiary, and disrespectful' and says that barbarities such as brutalisation of women, the persecution of homosexuals, honour killings, the beheading of apostates and the stoning of adulterers come directly out of the Koran. The Freethinker
• The apostate failed, and the once vibrant gods of Greece degenerated until they became mere rhetorical flourishes that permitted learned poets, like Milton, to ornament his verse with their euphonious names.
• The real man remains elusive, a confessant who never quite confesses, an apostate convert to the anti-war school who remains loyal to an American commitment gone wrong.
• The problem is compounded by the fact that pretty much all orthodox religious establishments tend to be well organised, lavishly funded, and take a robust line against dissenters and apostates.
• Then, as now, there were apostate religious leaders; adultery, divorce, falsehood, oppression and cruelty were rife.
• 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.
• Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores.
• And learn from the “main stream” Muslims and the apostates who know it from the inside. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Islam Bus Ads in Miami
• Those who didn't accept were considered apostates.