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To: SeeSharp
And who will remember the people Thomas More had burned at the stake? One of them was William Tyndale

Really? That's an impressive achievement on More's part, since More was beheaded in London in June, 1535, and Tyndale was burned in Belgium in October of 1536.

11 posted on 06/21/2011 5:56:25 PM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: Campion

More fell from King Henry’s grace faster than he could catch William Tyndale. It doesn’t change the fact that he bitterly opposed William Tyndale, opposed his excellent translation, and did his best to kill him.

“I find that breed of men absolutely loathsome,” he told Erasmus. “I want to be as hateful to them as anyone possibly can be; for my increasing experience with these men frightens me with the thought that the whole world will suffer at their hands.”

More described his feelings on the fate of the heretic: “The air longs to blow noxious vapours against the wicked man. The sea longs to overwhelm him in its waves, the mountains to fall upon him, hell to swallow him up after his headlong fall, the demons to plunge him into gulfs of ever-burning flames...”


16 posted on 06/21/2011 6:08:49 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Campion
Really? That's an impressive achievement on More's part, since More was beheaded in London in June, 1535, and Tyndale was burned in Belgium in October of 1536.

Not really that impressive. He was arrested a year before he was executed. It was More's efforts that got him arrested and charged with heresy.

27 posted on 06/21/2011 7:27:33 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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