Okay, I'll grant you that. Remember though, that the Reformed in Revolutionary American relentlessly persecuted Baptists, Quakers, Catholics and anybody else that they didn't like. Didn't make them right then either. :)
I remember reading about this guy years ago. A wheeled cross. Yeah, sure. However, you keep going on about self created sacrifice. Jesus fasted and so did the Jews of the day. Monasticism came from the imitation of the self sacrifice of Christ. Privation, when pursued with holy aims, can be very beneficial. Have you ever fasted, by the way; can you relate to the practice?
Well, to put your mind at ease, there are no loaded weapons involved in my persecution. Nor fires. Nor drownings. And, it is a well known fact that Reformers routinely failed to recognize how to apply a biblical perspective to an unbelieving world OR how to treat those in theological disagreement civily. Shame on us.