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To: Tublecane
I coudn’t say what, exactly, Bruno was burned for, except that it was “heresy”. He did, I gather, believe in an infinite number populated worlds. He was also a heliocentrist and a pantheist. So he could have been burned for any number of moral failings.

100% correct. They had plenty of reasons to execute Bruno. Not the least of which were his direct insults to the Pope.

22 posted on 11/12/2009 6:48:18 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: MAexile

In other words, you believe that insulting the Pope warrants the death penalty.


28 posted on 11/12/2009 7:02:12 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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