Please give opinions and thought about William Tyndale
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Chris Putnam wrote:No paper to write. Most historians regard Oct.17, 1517 as the start of the reformation. While that is an arbitrary but significant date, I have been doing a great deal of reading about the reformation and the time period involved (this last year being the 500th anniversary of the event). Many of the "leaders" of all that went on were just fascinating to me. Mankind was headed one direction and then it took a major turn in just a few decades. I just thought I would start a discussion about it and get the perspective of members of this forum and see what they had to say.
Thank you
Chris Putnam wrote:Thank you Thomas Eshuis. Martin Luther stated that many before him laid the groundwork for what he did.
Chris Putnam wrote: Jan Hus was burned at the stake 102 years earlier for teaching his "heresies".
Chris Putnam wrote: It is reported that he said to his executioners as they were about to light the fire "Now we will cook the goose." (Huss in Bohemian means goose.) "Yes", replied Huss, "but there will come an eagle in a hundred years that you will not reach." Martin Luther believed he was the fulfillment of this prophesy.
Chris Putnam wrote:
But the purpose of my starting this thread was to see if others had anything to add about William Tyndale.
Chris Putnam wrote: I know there are several documentaries about him on youtube, but I have not watched them. His story is one of great courage,
Chris Putnam wrote: which anyone should be able to respect.
Chris Putnam wrote: At his execution he was strangled with a chain before he was burned, a courtesy the Church extended to great scholars who were to be burned at the stake. What remained of him was blown to bits with gun powder.
laklak wrote:Respect his courage? He was strangled and burned because of a fucking fairy tale. Not only that, he knew damn well what would happen to him but he did it anyway. What an idiot. Honestly. That goes for any and all "martyrs". Fucking deluded morons, the job lot.
laklak wrote:Not at all. However, I don't respect that sort of idiocy.
Chris Putnam wrote:laklak wrote:Respect his courage? He was strangled and burned because of a fucking fairy tale. Not only that, he knew damn well what would happen to him but he did it anyway. What an idiot. Honestly. That goes for any and all "martyrs". Fucking deluded morons, the job lot.
Do you think they should die for this?
Chris Putnam wrote:People in history have undoubtedly died for something that was not true, but their willingness to die for it tells me that they certainly believed it was true.
Chris Putnam wrote: I don't know that it means they are idiots.
Chris Putnam wrote: Some of them might have been very intelligent.
Chris Putnam wrote:Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Galileo was forced to recant his discovery or be executed for heresy. Apparently he recanted. In his case he knew he had the truth, but clearly did not see this as something to die for. He probably did not attach any eternal significance for his soul to his work in this area. Interestingly enough the Roman Catholic Church only recently admitted that they were perhaps a little hard on old Galileo.
Chris Putnam wrote:Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Galileo was forced to recant his discovery or be executed for heresy. Apparently he recanted.
In his case he knew he had the truth, but clearly did not see this as something to die for.
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