Posted on 03/09/2023 6:19:18 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1524, the first Reformation martyr of Switzerland was beheaded in Lucerne.
Klaus Hottinger (English Wikipedia entry | German), a cobbler by trade, was among Zurich’s early radical reformers — the folks impatient enough for ecclesiastical change to go looking for provocative transgressions.
On March 9, 1522 — two years to the day before his martyrdom — Hottinger was among several Zurich denizens who calculatedly broke the Lenten fast by gobbling sausages at a printer‘s home. History charmingly designates this event “the Affair of the Sausages”. It was scandalous precisely because Zwingli, a pastor, made no attempt to enforce the Church’s fasting edict on his fellows, and then defended the carnivores.
This sort of behavior marked an important cleavage with Luther, both tactically and theologically. Luther certainly agreed with Zwingli that meat was not forbidden Christians, and even that believers ought to assert this right forcefully when bullied...
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He was the wurst....
Bunch of sausage gobblers.
Clocks are sore of a weakness for Orwell. He makes too much of them and it gets to be a little ridiculous.
I LOVE THESE POSTS!!!!! I really am going to turn my 10 year old grandson onto Executed Today. You get real history there, and you see how convoluted, corrupt, stupid, and difficult life is.
Do any Freepers think that’s a terrible idea? He’s already watching real crime stories on Youtube, and I mean they are shows that were shown on TV, nothing low down.
Bkmk
Good idea, reading a little history will show that idiocy is not a recent development
Thanks. I read about grisly executions before I was 10.
Thanks! He’ll get a kick out of it, and agree about the idiocy. That’s really the most important point.
I listened to the whole Bible on audiobook (read PERFECTLY by David Suchet who is Poirot, highly recommended). And I felt I learned more about people that about G-d. People are idiots, always have been idiots, and always will be idiots. One really needs to know this and keep it in mind.
I think there is a lot to be learned from this website about heroism given the reasons why some of the people were executed.
Yes, that’s true too!
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