[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“OK, does burning heretics at the stake please the Holy Spirit?”

Did it please the Holy Spirit when Moses went through the camp with the Levites? (Exodus 32)

And remember, I wrote:

“I never said anything about it [the burning of heretics] being insignificant.”

And you have utterly failed to document that I did say it was insignificant. Thanks.

I also wrote:

“Why don’t you try again?”

And rather than stick to Luther - which is who we were talking about - you came out with something completely different. Are you admitting that you’ve exhausted your knowledge on Luther? If so, that was pretty quick.

[Mr. Lucky]

Luther criticized the notion that the Pope acted with the authority of God when he ordered that heretics be burned. Leo issued the Exsurge Domine commanding that Luther recant his criticism or suffer the same fate as a condemned heretic. Luther refused.

Maybe Leo was right; maybe Luther was right.