One: I read Bainton’s _Hunted Heretic_ (about Servetus), and came away thinking that even Roger Williams would have made an exception for that bumptious shmo and had him hanged, at least.

Two: Who are our cultured despisers to condemn the burners of Servetus and the hangman of Aikenhead when the modern revolutionary icons whom the rest of us “must understand” were millions of times more bloodthirsty? Che Guevara liked to watch people being shot and left a trail of murdered subordinates stretching from the Sierra Maestra to the Congo to Bolivia. Mao Zedong, whose Long March a 20th century theologian once compared to a modern Exodus, was responsible for tens of millions of political/ideological murders. The political scientist R. J. Rummel, in his _Death by Government_, totals up nearly 170,000,000 political deaths in the 20th century along. Yes, we’ve got some twigs in our eyes, but some who delight in pointing them out have mature sequoia trunks in theirs.
Shalom

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