(1) Then, as now, there were apostate religious leaders; adultery, divorce, falsehood, oppression and cruelty were rife.(2) Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.(3) That said, however, I was not speaking of non-Christians or apostate Catholics in my blog.(4) And then, of course, you add to that the fact that I'm a woman and an apostate Jew, both of which make me feel guilty for whatever I'm doing at any given moment, whatever I'm doing.(5) A typical military entrepreneur of the 17th century, the Bohemian apostate Protestant Wallenstein is a complex and somewhat mysterious figure.(6) Those who didn't accept were considered apostates .(7) We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates , agnostics, atheists, or what have you.(8) Career counselors, she argued, have to find ways to persuade unemployed Ph.D.'s to believe that the outside world is not evil and that they are not apostates if they do something besides teaching and research.(9) It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates , or members of other faiths.(10) 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 .(11) We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.(12) Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores.(13) But is it reasonable, or just an article of faith in the marriage religion, that apostates must all be cynics or manipulators?(14) 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 .(15) His counterpart, James Ussher, Protestant archbishop of Armagh from 1625, returned the compliment, drawing up with his fellow bishops in 1626 an uncompromising attack upon the Roman Catholic church declaring it to be superstitious, idolatrous, erroneous, heretical and apostatical .(16) They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
