Quote:
Originally Posted by awareness
And it produced lethal insanity.
Back in the 16th c. the infamous but very popular (still today) John Calvin, condemned Michael Servetus. Servetus was burned with his books at the stake.
From Wiki:
"At his trial, Servetus was condemned on two counts, for spreading and preaching Nontrinitarianism, specifically, Modalistic Monarchianism, or Sabellianism, and anti-paedobaptism (anti-infant baptism).[31] Of paedobaptism Servetus had said, "It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity."
Thank God for secularism, or we'd still be burning at the stake for not believing in the trinity ... even by Calvinists ... not to mention the RCC.
|
This is the tragic legacy of some of the more dogmatic Reformers. They (like John Calvin) escaped persecution, inquisition, and death from the hands of the Roman Catholics for their religious views, yet turned around and applied these same measures to those (like Servetus or e.g. the Anabaptists) who disagreed with them.
But lest we think that mankind has evolved or modern society has improved due to its technology and great learning, today's Left with its own religious tenets is now duplicating this same intolerant history. Whereas they once fought vehemently for the rights of all to be made known and heard, they now wish to silence the voices of all their own critics with unjustified accusations of "hate speech" and "racism." Today's antifa rioters are no different than the rabid reformers who called for the head of Servetus.