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Adjective: heretical  hu're-ti-kul
  1. Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
    "Twentieth-century scholars have often understated, explained away, or otherwise soft-pedalled his heretical beliefs"
    - dissident, heterodox

See also: heresy, unorthodox

Encyclopedia: Heretical