heretic

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someone who has an opinion that is opposite to or against the official or popular opinion:

He complained that anyone who challenges an assumption about global warming gets branded a heretic.

When he began to enunciate his views, Friedman was largely considered a heretic.

someone who has beliefs that are against the principles of a particular religion:

They learned how Catholics persecuted heretics in the Middle Ages.

Akhenaten was declared a heretic for challenging established religion by worshipping one god.

a person who has beliefs that are opposed to the official belief of a church and that the church considers wrong