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To: George W. Bush; MarMema
Only Rome burns people for exercising their religious conscience.

Michael Servetus, Thomas More, John Fisher, Johan van Olden Barneveldt, and many others, plus Protestantism's With Obsession.

Plus 400 years of persecution, starvation, murder, and rape in Ireland.

Come back and be sanctimonious to me about Protestant Purity another day. Hypocrite.

695 posted on 07/10/2003 11:53:06 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Your little list shrinks to almost nothing once we eliminate the murders committed by the Church of England. Given that the Church of England was an imitation of the Romish model with the role of pope usurped by the king of England, it is no surprise that they employed the same barbaric methods as Rome did to institute the religious tyranny of English kings. Given how much you like the Inquisition and church-state collusion, I'd think you'd approve.

As for the few remaining "martyrs" on your little web page, it is only surprising that the Albigensians and Waldensians were so restrained that they killed only a few of their Roman persecutors before Rome finally killed them all in well-planned and lavishly funded massacres. At least Rome is consistent in that regard.
705 posted on 07/10/2003 3:23:15 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
plus Protestantism's Witch Obsession

You do realize, don't you, that your entire list of witches who were supposedly killed by Protestants wouldn't equal the total of Jews killed in even one of the hundreds of pogroms against the Jews which were instigated by Rome, often for financial reasons. Hitler wasn't the first European to kill Jews for their money. Rome pioneered that lucrative financial device.
707 posted on 07/10/2003 3:34:52 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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