Posted on 12/07/2011 8:57:32 PM PST by eccentric
I would like to know the answer to that question. Keep in mind, that most witchhunts occured BEFORE 1776, and the victims were hung not burned.
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I know of one Kenyan I’d like to see burned at a stake on pay per view.
Keep in mind, BO claims he is a Christian too.
Quoth Curly Stooge:
“I’d rather have a hot stake than a cold chop!”
Zero. Absolutely none. The only witches executed were while we still colonies of Great Britain, and they were executed by hanging. Burning at the stake was mostly a Catholic thing.
The Spanish might have burned some people at the stake in Florida or the Southwest, but they don’t count...
Some Indian tribes liked to torture people to death by roasting them, too. They don’t count either.
Wow. Great find. I said zero, but I was obviously wrong.
“... that the Catholic church strayed very far from Biblical teachings ...”
Indeed it had, but this is itself a testimony of the Power of the Life of Christ. What had started out a millenium and change eariler as a dead “cult leader” and his delusional rabble had developed such influence over such distance that those who lust for power and control over others were attracted to its councils...and the perversion began. We see this dynamic in play today as the government of the people, by the people, for the people is perverted into its exact opposite. The more things change....
The aged chiefs were killed in a variety of ways for ‘religious’ reasons. That is the point.
I think it was President Tyler (Tippacanoe and Tyler Too) who initiated a program to end these ‘witch hunt’ killings.
Don’t forget the Waco Branch Davidian Standoff when fire claimed the lives of 80 of his Branch Davidian followers including 25 children, in what seemed to be their final trial by the US government.
http://www.culteducation.com/waco.html
As I said at the end, it’s irrelevent because it’d be an isolated incident.
I only said it’s possible 1 person in some isolated incident burned 1 other person at a stake because he didn’t like the religious views of said latter person. After all, we have had millions and millions of people here.
I’m not agreeing with the moron hippie.
The context of the hippie’s comment was about Lincoln Chaffee’s “holiday tree”, instead of calling it “Christmas tree”. So it was specifically regarding religion.
It was called the SPANISH Inquisition for a reason. It was not “the Catholic Church”, as such as the local government/church involved in inquiries and executions. And incidentally, the executions were not nearly as many as made out to be.
Much of the false impressions of the Spanish Inquisition were/are perpetrated by Protestants to make all Catholics look bad. And we were/are primarily a WAS*P* nation.
The fire is so pretty when it burns...
Pretty, but flesh and hair is stinky when burned
There were people who were burned but it was generally either revenge/mob violence or if state sanctioned it was for civil crimes.
Post Constitution the number of people burned at the stake by the state for any reason is zero.
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