Timeline for Is it biblical to burn the heretics?
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| Sep 24, 2022 at 4:36 | answer | added | Dan Fefferman | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | user3961 | @Geremia We've had this discussion before. That's a BS semantic argument that apparently helps you sleep at night. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 22:31 | comment | added | user3961 | @Waeshael "Burning in effigy" is not quite the same thing as literally burning a heretic. Interesting comment, but ultimately not related. | |
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 2:21 | history | edited | curiousdannii♦ |
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| Sep 27, 2014 at 3:34 | comment | added | Geremia | The Catholic Church never burned heretics. See this. The Church handed them over to the State, and at the time, that's how the State executed criminals. | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 13:11 | vote | accept | Mawia | ||
| Aug 11, 2013 at 14:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackChristian/status/366574574546071552 | ||
| Aug 11, 2013 at 2:35 | answer | added | HelloWorld | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 11:32 | comment | added | Waeshael | In England, every year on November 5, we celebrated the burning of an effigy of Guido Fawlkes, a Catholic who was part of a plot to kill King James 1 in 1605. Discovered guarding the explosives under the Houses of Parliament, he was found guilty along with three others who were tortured, hanged and quartered, their body parts set on display in four places in England. To celebrate the survival of the King, bonfires were lit across England every Nov. 5. On the top of the bonfire was a stuffed "dummy" who sometimes represented Guy, sometimes the Pope. It had nothing to do with saving a soul. | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 5:12 | comment | added | Waeshael | Well, it really does have a lot to do with Roman Catholicism. You can only be a heretic if you are Roman Catholic. There is no such definition in the Anglican Communion. I suspect that the same is true for Protestant religions. There is a popular opinion that the pejorative "heretic" can be applied to anyone who doesn't agree with their own doctrine. But of course this is a misapplication of a catholic term that applies to errant clergy and teachers who will not recant. It is historical but also current. | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 4:17 | comment | added | Mawia |
Note: This question was originally tagged as church-history. I don't know why it was agreed to use catholicism tag.
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| Aug 9, 2013 at 18:41 | comment | added | user3961 | I bet you might be able to find something along the lines of "purged by fire" or "cleansed by fire". Fire was (and sort of still is) symbolic of God's holy cleansing. I bet you could find something where a witch is sentenced to burn for the sake of her own soul, that the fire might purge her of all evil. | |
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| Aug 9, 2013 at 15:14 | comment | added | Waeshael | WIki says nothing about burning to death as being supported by the Bible en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 15:07 | comment | added | Waeshael | The "burning" is to take place at the end of the world Mt 13:40, and is to be an act of God, not man. Burning as a punishment was used by the Romans against the Christians, and by the Celts against robbers, and there is a long history before that, and it continued into the 18th. cent. The precedent then is not taken from the text, but from long tradition. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 14:59 | comment | added | Waeshael | Well, I have a problem with "heretics." Until the Roman Church established its Dogma, heretic meant other opinion (cf. Iranaeus writings 2nd. cent.). And in RC only RC clergy can be branded a heretic and then only if they do not teach from the entire magisterium. i.e they teach only a part of it. Non-Catholics could not be heretics. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 14:03 | answer | added | Daniel | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 11:55 | comment | added | Mawia | @Waeshael Or, you misunderstood the question? | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 11:53 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | @Waeshael On the contrary, that verse may indeed be exactly why burning was chosen as the punishment. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 11:46 | comment | added | Waeshael | You have misunderstood "burned" in the scripture. It is not referring to a physical burning and so has no bearing on burning at the stakes. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 10:46 | answer | added | Andrew Leach | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 10:23 | history | edited | Mawia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2013 at 6:28 | history | asked | Mawia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |