[fortheDeclaration]

The true comfort of Calvinism, the whip, the sword and the stake.

[drstevej]

Servetus

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[ahadams2]

As an Anglican I find neither Calvinist nor (by orders of magnitude) Anabaptist arguments entirely convincing (hey - we don't find *anyone* else's arguments entirely convincing that's why we're Anglicans!) I believe that it is entirely wrong to act as though one act of one person being burned for their beliefs was any worse than any other. As a cultural phenomena, and a sin to which all major parts of the Body of Christ (both Protestant and Catholic) fell prey, the execution of people by burning probably is the penultimate example. It wasn't nice, it wasn't pretty, and with a very few exceptions it wasn't even right, but the lack of forgiveness on the parts of those who still hold these things against one another half a millenium later is perhaps the greatest sin of all.

[fishtank]

A great book for people frightened of a state church is "Pilgrim Church" by Broadbent.

Calvin's role in killing is given space, as are the purges and inquisitions of the RCC.