Not enough, judging by the cast of The View.
LOL Funny you mention this stupid remark. I was just watching that (repeat). Typical hippie.
I’m sure somewhere in this (actual) country of many, many people, someone may’ve been burned - at the stake - at the hands of someone else over apostasy or some such. But it’s irrelevent.
It’s never happened as a movement in this country that I’m aware of. The Salem stuff was as a colony, long before there was a new country.
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From wiki so take it with a grain of salt but it looks to be about 40 total...
In Massachusetts, there are two cases of burning at the stake. First, in 1681, a slave named Maria tried to kill her owner by setting his house on fire. She was convicted of arson and burned at the stake at Roxbury, Massachusetts.[10] Concurrently, a slave named Jack, convicted in a separate arson case, was hanged at a nearby gallows, and after death his body was thrown into the fire with that of Maria. Second, in 1755, a group of slaves had conspired and killed their owner, with servants Mark and Phillis executed for his murder. Mark was hanged and his body gibbeted, and Phillis burned at the stake, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.[11]
In New York several burnings at the stake are recorded, particularly following suspected slave revolt plots. In 1708 one woman was burnt and one man hanged. In the aftermath of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712 20 people were burnt, and during the alleged slave conspiracy of 1741 no less than 13 slaves were burnt at the stake.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning#Historical_usage
Check “What’s So Great About Christianity” - it was very few, just cannot remember exactly.
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Ummm, I’m not aware of a single “witch hunt” since Salem, Mass, in the 1690s. The Puritan leadership of the colony was so embarrassed about what happened there, I’m fairly sure we didn’t have any more actual executions for witchcraft after that...not totally sure though, may have been a couple more isolated cases, but certainly not after 1776 and the new USA.
Fairly certain there were NO official executions ever by “burning at the stake” in America, as that’s an old religious form of execution (for heresy...) and too many early Protestants died that way back in the old country....and the Protestants here didn’t want to repeat that here. The Puritans did hang Quakers in Boston...but again, you have to go back into the 1600s to find that.
By who?
Europeans only or all ethnicity?
By the state after a trial or by angry mobs?
Are we talking for religious or civic crimes?
Do prisoners of war being burned as revenge count?
Are we talking the entire area of what is now the USA or are we talking about only territory that was the US at that time?
Should I include the areas which are now territories?
Pre or Post Revolution?
Pre or Post Constitution?
Should the CSA be included or excluded from 1860-1865?
For example if the Navajo burned a skinwalker in 1813 in the area which is now the southwest US should I include or exclude them?
If you are referring to English Colonists in the thirteen states area and the crime being witchcraft after a court trial I believe the answer is zero.
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Umm, been watching porn snuff films lately?
I did want to mention that among the Shawnee Indians, and the tribes of the Northwest Indian Wars, burning at the stake was not uncommon as both torture and execution. Grenadier Squaw’s village marker near Circleville Ohio points out that the one small hill was called the burning grounds for that was where they burnt the captives. After reading Allan Eckert’s books I realized several of the people on the Ohio frontier met their death this way. While the colonials themselves did not execute too many people in this manner they were sometimes killed this way by their Indian foes. So if you count Indian captives many dozens more died burning at the stake on US soil.
I doubt anyone on FR has ever burned even a single person at the stake.
Those Jesse Watters bits are the best part of the BOR Factor.
And Dennis Miller.
I have heard the actual number is 2-3 if that. It is most likely an urban legend.
Pray for America
I believe that the only people in this country that ever burned anyone at the stake were certain Eastern Indian tribes. As far as I know all the convicted(wrongly of course)witches were all hung. After the mass hanging of the Salem witches I believe the practice of convicting witches was done away with.
Additionally, when someone tries to bring up The Crucible as an indictment of “McCarthyism”, (A) there WERE witches in The Crucible just as there WERE Communists in the USA, and (B) the book was written BEFORE McCarthy’s rise, he became the focused target to attack all of the investigations.
The communist sympathizers in the State Department outlasted Joe and today their are still unelected officials who work from within “the beast” to take down this country or at least push their own agenda contrary to the elected leadership (hello Valerie Plame).
I know of one Kenyan I’d like to see burned at a stake on pay per view.
Keep in mind, BO claims he is a Christian too.
Quoth Curly Stooge:
“I’d rather have a hot stake than a cold chop!”
Zero. Absolutely none. The only witches executed were while we still colonies of Great Britain, and they were executed by hanging. Burning at the stake was mostly a Catholic thing.
The Spanish might have burned some people at the stake in Florida or the Southwest, but they don’t count...
Some Indian tribes liked to torture people to death by roasting them, too. They don’t count either.