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Catholicism makes it our business when they make me, or any other person who has left the Catholic church, the object of that kind of treatment.

Those words about burning people at the stake aren’t spoken in a vacuum.

Those are real flesh and blood humans that you are talking about torturing to death by burning at the stake, and for what? Disagreeing with Catholicism.

It then becomes the business of EVERY non-Catholic since they are the objects of that kind of treatment of Catholics with that mindset.

And just where in Scripture is that kind of treatment of others who disagree with Jesus ever justified, condoned, encouraged, or even just mentioned?

What was Jesus’ response to those who crucified Him?

I don't recall you claiming to be a member in good standing of the Roman Catholic Church. You left, having made your own decision to do so. You have been honest about that decision. Therefore, Catholics ought, in good faith, to judge you accordingly for all the good things you do here and this is not the first time I have posted that as to you. If people refuse to believe what Catholics believe, but also refuse to identify as other than Catholic, that is a different story.

Name a single instance in which I have advocated burning at the stake Reformed Christians who identify as such. When WAS the last instance of a burning at the stake by Roman Catholic Church authorities or by secular authority after judgment by Church authority?

If we are to deal with centuries old history, the Salem Witchcraft trials were not before Catholic authority. Nor were some of the festivities at Geneva. Or those under Henry VIII or Lizzie I.

Re your post #49:

I can understand your passion, metmom, but your fears are unfounded. Do you honestly think the current liberal Catholic Church, which is in the process of crashing down into rubble, is ever going to reinstitute the Middle Ages? REALLY???

Come on. Their clergy are a bunch of sprout eating, new age philosophy spouting hippies. They pray with pagans and animists--in front of the latter's own idols. I'm sorry. I'm probably the most anti-Catholic member of this forum, but to me the idea of a resurgent conservative Catholic Church is about as likely as one of the other planets belching out Captain Kangaroo or something. It's never going to happen, any more than Salt Lake City "ruling the world" as some FReepers so fear.

On the other hand, such a world, while far worse in some ways, but actually be superior to our own in others. The Protestant notion of "freedom of religion" (based on the identification of religion as an "offer of salvation" rather than a simple statutory legal system) is in some ways the progenitor of all our troubles today (though this has roots in Catholic/Orthodox chrstianity as well).

Please. Let me know when some limp-wristed, evolutionist, Democrat bishop starts building pyres.

>>It then becomes the business of EVERY non-Catholic since they are the objects of that kind of treatment of Catholics with that mindset.<<

And the similarity with the Muslim attitude is troubling. Although the Catholic Church does hold that they both serve the same god.

It then becomes the business of EVERY non-Catholic since they are the objects of that kind of treatment of Catholics with that mindset.

Please document for us all of the cases of non-Catholics burned at the stake, with the official approval of the Catholic Church hierarchy, anywhere in the world, since the year 1845.