Where's
Waldo?
 I'd
never heard of the Waldensians
until
today, which is why I highlighted them in this comic.
They were a
Christian sect which felt that the Church had, even
in the tenth century, already become corrupt. As a
result the Church gave them the royal shaft. By way
of example here's a little explanation from heretication.com:
The Waldensians, or Vaudois, were followers of Peter
Waldo of Lyon. They
gave
their money to the poor and preached the Christian
gospel. Waldo attracted the hatred of the clergy when
he commissioned a translation of the Bible into occitan,
the language of what is now southern France.
Having
read the bible for themselves they denied the temporal
authority
of priests and objected to papal corruption. They
rejected numerous accretions, including the Mass,
prayers for the dead, indulgences, confessions, penances,
church music, the reciting of prayers in Latin, the
adoration of saints, the adoration of the sacrament,
killing, and the swearing of oaths. They also
allowed women to preach.
They were excommunicated as heretics
in 1184 at the Council of Verona, and persecuted with
zeal for centuries. 150 were burned at Grenoble in
a single day in 1393. Survivors fled to remote valleys
in the Alps. Pope Innocent VIII organised a crusade
against them in an unsuccessful attempt to exterminate
them, and they were still being persecuted centuries
later.
In Piedmont in the middle of the seventeenth century
anyone
in Villaro who declined to go to a Roman Catholic
mass was liable to be crucified upside down. Some
were maimed and left to die of starvation, some had
strips of flesh cut off their bodies until
they bled to death, some were stoned, some impaled
alive upon stakes or hooks. Some were dragged along
the ground until there flesh was scraped away. One
at least was literally minced. Daniel Rambaut had
his toes and fingers cut off in sections: one joint
being amputated each day in an attempt to make him
recant and accept the Roman faith. Some had their
mouths stuffed with gun-powder which was then ignited.
Paolo Garnier of Roras was castrated, then skinned
alive. Children were killed in various ways before
the eyes of their parents. Those few who escaped to
the mountains were mostly killed by exposure, starvation
or disease.
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To put it mildly, the Church's cruel
and violent persecution of its fellow adherents makes
me feel somewhat better
about
how they treated us "heretic" folk.
I don't feel so left out now.
The Waldensian's, incidentally, are still around, though
in modest numbers.
=Lefty=
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 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #62 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011. None,
sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(62) 8-5-2011: GOOD NEWS! The GOP has a plan to create
300,000 jobs.... no, wait. That's eliminate
300,000 jobs.
Sorry.
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