Though the actual numbers are far less (3,000-5,000), these fiery deaths were quite real and regrettable.
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Want to talk about how many Catholics were killed by Protestants - burned, drawn and quartered, crushed to death, hanged, tortured to death - in England, Ireland and France? Way more than 3-5,000. Or how about the many Spanish and Portuguese Catholics in little villages on their coasts who were killed by Huguenots who would land at night, kill everybody in the town, destroy the statues and strip everything of value out of the churches, and then set fire to them, usually with the priest inside? Or the attacks by British Protestant colonists in what is now the US on the Spanish Indian missions in Florida - again, one of their favorite techniques was to herd the Indians and priests into the parish church and set fire to it.