A schism (pronounced /ˈsɪzəm/SIZ-əm, /ˈskɪzəm/SKIZ-əm or, less commonly, /ˈʃɪzəm/SHIZ-əm) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. The word is most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body, such as the East–West Schism or the Great Western Schism. It is also used of a split within a non-religious organization or movement or, more broadly, of a separation between two or more people, be it brothers, friends, lovers, etc.
A schismatic is a person who creates or incites schism in an organization or who is a member of a splinter group. Schismatic as an adjective means pertaining to a schism or schisms, or to those ideas, policies, etc. that are thought to lead towards or promote schism.
In religion, the charge of schism is distinguished from that of heresy, since the offence of schism concerns not differences of belief or doctrine but promotion of, or the state of, division. However, schisms frequently involve mutual accusations of heresy. In Roman Catholic teaching, every heresy is a schism, while there may be some schisms free of the added guilt of heresy.LiberalProtestantism, however, has often preferred heresy over schism. Presbyterian scholar James I. McCord (quoted with approval by the Episcopalianbishop of Virginia Peter Lee) drew a distinction between them, teaching: "If you must make a choice between heresy and schism, always choose heresy. As a schismatic, you have torn and divided the body of Christ. Choose heresy every time."
“No Lives Matter” has emerged in recent months as a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764, and experts are at a loss for how to stop its spread ... .
It was 2007 and during that time, US-backed Ethiopian troops were in the country battling splinter groups that rose from the ashes following the ouster of the Islamic Courts Union, and the subsequent rise of its youth military wing, al-Shabab.
The Telegraph has the story ... He added ... The comments signal that Mr Lowe and Mr Habib could form a splinter group on the Right to challenge Mr Farage and Reform ... Mr Lowe has categorically denied the claims, which he described as a “witch hunt” ... Tags ... 5.
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The group said on the social platform X it expects Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring its resolution to the floor next week ... If HouseRepublicans splinter into groups of dissenters, a government shutdown looms next week.
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CHANDIGARH ... The main Akali Dal at that time was known as Akali Dal (Longowal) and was headed by Surjit Singh Barnala who was also the CM while the splinter group that had parted from the mother party in May 1986 was headed by Parkash Singh Badal ... .
The group has already been linked to six killings, one attempted murder and one faked death in a terrifying criminal spree across the US ... In 2018, LaSota and his new followers formed their own radical rationalist splinter group.
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