Shouldn't  heretics be burned at the stake?
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This question has got to be a joke.
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People fear what they do not understand. also, half of these people go to someone who may interpret the bible as such. If a priest/bishop, whatever tells you that only Xtians are going to heaven, are you're one then you believe it. If they also say everyone else is going to burn in hell, then you feel better about yourself, and believe it, while putting the uknown factors down. Pagans are awesome, and don't worry if hell actually exists (which he out so much enphasis on, yet don't even know if its there) you're probably not going to go there anyway.
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NO. hellfire is an indoctrination that was put there by the church if you read in the bible the price that sin pays is death so he would have eventually dies and not have been resurected to heaven again. go research the ransom sacrifice on the web will help you to understand more
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Actually it seems that the only universally held religious doctrine today is "All religions should be respected".  And according to that doctrine, I am a heretic - hope I won't be burned at stake for it!\nThere is no reason why all religions or all beliefs must be respected.   \nYou have to earn my respect.  And I have to earn yours.  These things don't come for free.
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No one here has even attempted to address "appropriate penalty" which to me is a very vague and liberal phrase and can mean that any official of the Church can devise any penalty at any point in time as they so deem to be appropriate, which could be a slap on the knukles with a ruler as was once done, a slap on the face, as was once done, burning at the stake, which was once done.  Anything.  They would, however, have to obey the laws of a given land or be in violation of the conspiracy laws.
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Oh! Where can I get a Tipper Gore effigy to burn? It must be pretty heavy, do you need a winch to hoist it? :)\n\nBrown's book challenges blind faith. People who hold blind faith are weak in it because they have no critical, intellectual, scientific proof of their tradition. Other religions tend not to be as faith oriented as philosophical, or as Christians would say, works based. So the reaction is one of insecurity and fear.
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Aw, Rev.  Cheer up.  There are still plenty of heretics who need to hear your message.  Like me!!!!!!
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No. It is morally wrong to financially rape a grieving relative by over-charging for funeral services.\nCremation is sanitary, environmentally responsible, much, much cheaper, and if it's wrong morally, as you asked, what about all the saints who were burned at the stake by the Catholic church during the Inquisition because they disagreed with some of their doctrines? \nI think it's a great idea!
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Because the Church and its lemmings say so. that simple, see ya at the book burning
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I haven't seen anything in the news about people being burned at the stake.  Where did you get your information?  I would be interested in knowing about this.\n\nBut as far as religion destroying lives, I have to disagree.\n\nAfter I had been involved in a lifestyle of drugs, booze, cigarettes, etc, for a number of years, it was a person praying for me, and my receiving Jesus as my personal Savior that set me free from that life.  If I had NOT turned to Jesus when I did, THAT would have destroyed me.  \n\nBut - wait - you didn't ask about Jesus.  You asked about religion.  But TRUE religion is meeting the needs of others - feeding the hungry, helping Katrina victims, visiting the sick, those in prison, etc, etc.  \n\nWhat I would like to know is, how does THAT destroy somebody's life?
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Well, God has a plan. They asked to be put into the herd of swine. Jesus allowed it. See the point? The demons couldn't even make a move without His very approval. The question misses the overall view. They could do nothing apart from His power. And they knew it. Jesus was demonstrating His power over the very forces of Hell. They will "get theirs" in due time, so to speak.
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Burning witches to death is definiately sinful, always was.  This was done as an extremist act, not the written word of the Bible.  Slavery is not forbidden in the Bible, however, maltreatment of slaves was condemned in the Bible.  But, Slavery is a social issue, not a spiritual issue, so the decision is up to the government.
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The same thing they used to spread before they burn the so-called witches, pagans and Jews at the stake.  An excuse that people who believe one way use to be rotten to those that don't.
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I'm sure you remember the Inquisition.. or the papal pardons, or especially the crusades(did you know that in one crusade they sent children in battle because they we're the only ones left? and all for money...). Imagine you we're the pope, and that millions of people believe that you are the represent-ant on earth of the God that gave them all that they have.. you would give him total obedience, in respect for God. Such a power would corrupt many, if not all... maybe it striped the officials of the church of that time of their faith and fear of God, or maybe they never had faith and we're fake as today's politicians.. we can only assume, will never know for sure.. Of course there are good guys too, that fight for preserving God's laws and for the well-fair of Cristian's, they are the motif for which people believe in God up to this day, they are the hope of the church and of the salvation pf humanity as we know it:( It's sad that those who preach moral values have never done anything more with them..
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The Bible writes about "Gospel grinders", that's who those people were. Jesus said freely have ye received, freely give. (the Gospel)\n\nI will not defend those church people and their force-fed ways of spreading the Gospel , but I will say this, they burned witches at the stake, and naturally some amount of innocent persons got labeled witches and were subsequently burnt as well.\n\nWhat about Judas Iscariot, one may ask? He handled all the money (so that they could survive) doesn't this mere fact tell you anything about his character? Greedy! He sold Jesus.\n\nI'm not bitter, I don't want your money and I wouldn't dream of trying to convince you to do ANYTHING, let alone putting money in any collection plate.\n\nJesus said whosoever will may come, also he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear.\n\nRegardless of you being an un-believer, God still LOVES you.
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the original greek and hebrew scriptures says stake... ant the way its desribed how he was hanging from the stake with "his hands pined over his head" its impossible for him to be on a "cross"
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I am a very spiritual person.  I do not follow an organized religion because I don't think that a preacher or a priest or rabbi or somesuch, has a right to tell me that I'm going to burn in hell, because of something I choose to do in my life.  I'm the one that has to own up to it, not them.