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defacto7

(13,635 posts)
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 09:29 PM Dec 2018

Doubt in the 16th century

Born in 1548, Giordano Bruno, excommunicated by the Calvinists, excommunicated by the Lutherans, and sentenced to burn at the stake by the Catholics claimed, among other things, that the universe was infinite and filled with many other suns like ours. When sentenced to death by fire in 1600, he famously said, "Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it." Invited to repent, he refused. While on the pyre he was offered a crucifix which he pushed away with sharp disdain.

He was 51.

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Doubt in the 16th century (Original Post) defacto7 Dec 2018 OP
We can be a cruel species. dameatball Dec 2018 #1
So true, and there have been those defacto7 Dec 2018 #2
I've always thought that many of the witches murdered by god fearing believers Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #3

defacto7

(13,635 posts)
2. So true, and there have been those
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 09:48 PM
Dec 2018

who stood firm in defense of freedom of thought, science, and reason.

Farmer-Rick

(11,525 posts)
3. I've always thought that many of the witches murdered by god fearing believers
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 12:16 PM
Jan 2019

were actually non-believers. Religion sure did try it's damnest to get rid of all nonbelievers.

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