(June 28, 2015 at 12:30 pm)Nope Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 11:10 am)Randy Carson Wrote: I don't, personally. But I can understand why others thought differently in times gone by.
Randy, you could understand why someone would light another human on fire and listen to them scream in agony? You are going to have to explain this to me.
The goal of killing heretics was not simply to enjoy their suffering, was it? No.
The idea was that those who led others into spiritual error endangered their eternal souls. Thus, while a murderer merely ends the temporal life of the person he kills, the heretic ends the eternal life of his "victims".
Thus, harming someone for eternity is worse than harming someone for this life only.
I do not agree with this, but I can understand the logic of it.