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To: MrChips

Don’t think Wycliff went around digging up corpses.

So who is the hater?


275 posted on 10/15/2013 7:41:22 PM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: donmeaker
So who is the hater?

You, apparently . . . in a long line of Catholic haters in the sad, centuries-old history of anti-Catholicism. Elizabeth, who had her wits about her, burned as many Catholics at the stake as did a rather deranged Mary burn Protestants. And in the era you are discussing, heresy (Wycliff preached some 50 or 60 of them) was never treated as a laughing matter, and it was often secular authorities who did the persecuting. Wycliff's bones? Yes, exhumed by Martin V, but many years after the order was given by the Council of Constance (long after his death) in a time of religious warfare and to fulfill orders of a council following a period of papal schism and conciliar government. Yes, yes, all very savage, but perhaps we should discuss other enlightened acts of the time, such as the murder of Thomas More or the drawing and quartering of the Carthusian monks, the most devout men in England, as a prelude for the slaughters of thousands of good churchmen (who had the best interest of the peasantry at heart) which soon followed.

276 posted on 10/15/2013 8:43:11 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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