If it’s reformation month, maybe we should focus on the atrocities of the reformation rather than the mother church. How many did Cranmer have burned, hmmm? Who burned the heretics at the stake, the inquisition? Nay, it was the civil authorities. How did the good brother Luther view his Jewish brothers and sisters, eh?
Cranmer himself was burned at the stake, with about 400 other protestant leaders during just 5 years of Bloody Mary's reign in England. Do you have a record, from a reliable source, as to Cranmer causing any executions at all?
As to CIVIL AUTHORITIES burning heritics, OF COURSE they did, as they alone were allowed to execute anyone. All Roman Catholic principalities throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance period had laws against heresy--however only Church authorities could prove heresy. Hence the Inquistion "proved" someone a heretic, then, knowing (and endorsing) exactly what would happen, turned the convict over the Roman Catholic civil authority to be burned. It is the HEIGHT of hypocrisy to claim "the Inquisition never killed anyone..." when you know very well--using the local authorities as its executioners--it did, burning them by the thousands.To say this is the same logic that claims Pharisee and Temple authorities had nothing to do with the execution of Jesus--since the Romans did the deed.
In the mid 1500s many thousands of Protestants were executed this way all over Europe, especially on the Continent, where in France the numbers topped tens of thousands.