[Vision2020] Martyr

[Andreas Schou]

On 11/21/06, heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net> wrote:
> Mr. Gier,
>
> Where in the post does it say "any biblical justification for killing"
> I only said that Calvin testified as what was heresy not what the
> punishment for it was.

This is untrue. Calvin called, specifically, for beheading. Consider
his correspondence with Guillaume Farel.

> You again continue to espouse a false hood that
> Calvin had anything to do with the death of Servetus.

This is nonsense, Doug. He is hardly the only one with bloodied hands
over Servetus' death, but he had been calling for Servetus' execution
for a decade before it occurred. The fact that he proposed
decapitation as a more proper remedy than burning is a semantic issue
that was, I imagine, of little interest to Servetus.

> Your intimation
> that "thousands upon thousands" of lives lost at the hands of the
> Trinitarians, over the lukewarmness of the Unitarians, is just another
> of your impotent charges against the Gospel. Your just sooting blanks,
> cowboy!

Perhaps I am unclear on my theology, but exactly which book of the New
Testament was written by John Calvin?

-- ACS