John Knox advocated killing Catholics. I had only vaguely heard of him referred to before today so I went and read some of his writings, he was an angry man.
Perhaps in his heart of hearts he knew what he had sacrificed and felt robbed.
According to Catholic canon law, a heretic is to be purged by the following steps:
I. Excommunication. This sentence is to be pronounced not only on notorious heretics, and those suspected of heresy, but also on those who harbour, defend, or assist them, or who converse familiarly with them, or trade with them, or hold communion of any sort with them.
So anybody who refused the Papists, or was suspected of it, or even talked to them, was excommunicated. This sounds like some Hitler or the Red Scare.
II. Proscription from all offices, ecclesiastical or civil,—from all public duties and private rights.
So the folks in number one above no longer had any rights or jobs to support their families. It gets worse.
III. Confiscation of all their goods.
This is what the greedy Romanists really wanted in the first place. In Foxe’s Book of Martyrs we find that they accused some rich people (even devout Catholics) of heresy just so that they could get their money. Why do think the Vatican is one of the richest governments in the whole world?
You don’t think they are greedy? According to their canon law, “It is not lawful for a layman to sit in judgment upon a clergyman. Secular judges who dare, in the exercise of a damnable presumption, to compel priests to pay their debts, are to be restrained by spiritual censures.” (Decreti, Gregorii, lib. ii. tit. ii. cap. i. ii. vi, and Sexti Decret. lib. ii. tit. ii.cap. ii.) According to this decretal, the priests are not subject to the legal system—even when they have debts. Now you know that’s wrong.
Canon law also says, “The tribunals of kings are subjected to the power of priests.” (Decreti, pars i. distinct. x. can. vi) You can believe that when the Roman monster takes over the world all of this will rise again to its former monstrous glory. How about this one, “Whatever belongs to priests cannot be usurped by kings.” (Decreti, pars i. distinct. x. can. v.) But doesn’t the Bible tell us to be subject to the powers that be? This ain’t right.
Another example of greed. The canon law says clerics are not to pay taxes (Decret. Gregorii, lib. iii. tit. xlix. cap. iv. and vii.)—BUT JESUS HIMSELF PAID TAXES!!!!! The Catholic religion says its priests are exempt—greed my friends, greed! That could be a whole article in itself. All that money for masses for the dead—it does no good and it lines the pocket of this devilish institution.
IV. The last punishment is death sometimes by the sword,—more commonly by fire.
So they can kill anyone who opposes them.
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