GIORDANO BRUNO, torched by the Inquisition
In 1592, Bruno was arrested by the ecclesiastical authorities (The Inquisition) and put on trial for his beliefs, beliefs based on the real world such as those of Copernicus, and which he would not recant. After a seven year trail, Bruno, in an act which forever branded the church as an intolerant institution, at Rome, was put to death by burning.
Source: HERE.
Yet another log on the fire lit by the power junkies to illuminate their "sainted" faces, or the glitter on their crowns of iron.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"In the spring of 1599, the trial was begun before a commission of the Roman Inquisition, and, after the accused had been granted several terms of respite in which to retract his errors, he was finally condemned (January, 1600), handed over to the secular power (8 February), and burned at the stake in the Campo dei Fiori in Rome (17 February). Bruno was not condemned for his defence of the Copernican system of astronomy, nor for his doctrine of the plurality of inhabited worlds, but for his theological errors, among which were the following: that Christ was not God but merely an unusually skillful magician, that the Holy Ghost is the soul of the world, that the Devil will be saved, etc."
He seems rather calm amidst the flames, though.
ah yess...
more of God's alleged followers... pleasing him by torturing those to death... who cannot find it in their hearts to believe "it" EXACTLY as they dictate.
yup...
I am soooo sure that's what a merciful Christ Jesus died for... Just so we could kill all who resist his (or is it really, our) will?
now I know why some folks say, God can vomit about some stuff.