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To: RegulatorCountry; rbmillerjr; stfassisi; Natural Law; MarkBsnr
They'll not have been doing it as long, as frequently or as energetically as their Catholic brethren, if so.

So, now we're down to the argument that, yeah we may have done it, but not as often as you.

Here's a guy, Jan David Joris, who so feared for his life under Calvin's police state, that he had to write his opposition to Calvin's practices/doctrines under the assumed name John of Bruges so that he wouldn't be persecuted.

3 year after the poor fellow had died and was buried, the Calvinists found out the true identity of John of Bruges. So they held a trial to convict him of heresy, exumed his corpse and punished him by burning.

29 posted on 06/27/2010 9:18:00 AM PDT by Titanites
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To: Titanites; RegulatorCountry; rbmillerjr; stfassisi; Natural Law; MarkBsnr
Here's a guy, Jan David Joris, who so feared for his life under Calvin's police state, that he had to write his opposition to Calvin's practices/doctrines under the assumed name John of Bruges so that he wouldn't be persecuted.

Galileo Galilei

48 posted on 06/27/2010 11:35:49 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Titanites
So they held a trial to convict him of heresy, exumed his corpse and punished him by burning.

Well, at least he wasn't your own pope. Formosus was dug up, put on trial by the then-current pope, in what has come to be known as the Cadaver Synod, posthumously declared a heretic, his body dumped in the Tiber, fished out by a sympathetic monk, reburied, dug up again ... the poor fellow had quite the rollercoaster ride after his death.

But, no, they didn't burn him; his remains were spared that insult, unlike the very dead John Wycliffe and the very alive Jan Hus. Small wonder, huh? I guess having held political power in your church still held some sway, no matter how completely psychotic the Vatican went after his natural and timely demise. It's nice to know some things never change.

Speaking of change, it took the Protestant Reformation for Christians to move beyond such barbarities, and even so, it even took Protestants many decades to shed these very odious, learned behaviors, to the betterment of all Christendom. No more burning at the stake, no more digging up dead bodies to punish the dead. Such a silly, dusty old superstition, as if we judge the dead.

And look at the thanks we get, lol, you guys trying to act as if this or that negative thing just popped out of the ether de novo in Calvin's Geneva or after Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg.

But, hey, at least it's progress. Now, if ya'll would just stop sawing up dead Saints for magical totems, souvenirs and such ... it's just plain confusing to us Bobble-totin' snake shakers. Is it bad to desecrate dead bodies for you guys, or is it good? We thought we settled that going on five hundred years ago, that it's bad.

Are parts of corpses still venerated in your church, for whatever mysterious reason? It's a little dissonant, you've got to admit. Not that there are any thoughts in the head of a corpse, but to this living man, it's a fine point of separation, between being parted out for fundraising and having my remains destroyed. It's desecration, either way.

Just let their poor bodies rest in peace. We don't judge the dead, bad or good, and their bones aren't magical.

126 posted on 06/27/2010 5:08:42 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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