Why did the Churches go from burning bibles to burning people with bibles or for reading the bible?
John Calvin, for example, used the excuse that he –in essence– believed that Christians ought to be ashamed if they weren’t willing to threaten, torture, & kill the opposers of his false teachings . . . That included those who made translations of the Bible that the common people could read in their own language . . . “Theological differences have been settled by burning people at the stake. Bible translator William Tyndale was STRANGLED at the stake and his body BURNED in 1536, after he published his translation of the “New Testament” in English. Earlier, at the behest of Pope Martin V, religious authorities, driven by a spirit of vengeance, DUG UP the BONES of Bible translator Wycliffe 44 years after his death so as to have the PLEASURE of BURNING THEM. During the Catholic Inquisition, thousands of Jews and “heretics” were stripped of their possessions, tortured, and burned at the stake—all supposedly in the name of Christ! Spanish theologian Michael Servetus, who was persecuted by
