This is the full context of what you wrote, Randy
Where you explicitly state that you understand why heretics were burned at the stake. It doesn't matter if you 'agree' with it, you said you understand why they did it.
(June 28, 2015 at 12:35 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 12:30 pm)Nope Wrote: 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.
Where you explicitly state that you understand why heretics were burned at the stake. It doesn't matter if you 'agree' with it, you said you understand why they did it.
