"OUR HERETICS" For the record, I believe the word "heretic" has been weaponized as a dismissive label, a pejorative employed for condemning anyone who disagrees with the one making the accusation. As a tool of debate, we call attacks directed at the person rather than their position "ad hominem," and these are regarded as "logical fallacies." In simple English, calling someone a heretic because they don't agree with you is evidence of nothing, other than rudeness. Before accusing someone of heresy was a way to exclude, exile or martyr those who didn't conform to status quo religion, it was at least a little kinder. For one, "heretics" were ...