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看了某人洋洋洒洒考證出來的證據,讓我們看看加爾文有沒有真的殺人。
11. (page 180) March 7, 1545 - Two women executed by burning at the stake (presumably for the crime of sorcery, i.e. spreading the plague). CALVIN INTERCEDED apparently to have them executed sooner rather than later after additional time in prison. The Council followed his directive happily and urged the executioner to "be more diligent in cutting off the hands of malefactors."
這明顯是Council根據當時的法律的判決,加爾文充其量施加了影響。
The last execution concerning the plague outbreak, bringing the total dead to 7 men and 24 women. A letter from CALVIN attests to 15 of these women being burned at the stake. CALVIN'S only concern was that the plague had not come to his house.
加爾文的一封書信,只是說明了當時發生的一件事,跟加爾文殺人的說法八竿子打不著。
8. (page 217) February 13, 1547 - CALVIN WRITES to the man who would preside over the burning of Michael Servetus. In the letter CALVIN WRITES, "For if he [Michael Servetus] came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive."
估計當時不止加爾文希望塞爾維特死。判決書顯然是別人下的。
33. (page 198) Monday, June 3, 1555 - The guilty are judged in absentia. Perrin is condemned to have the hand of his right arm cut off (the hand with which he grabbed the baton.) He and his accomplices were condemned to decapitation, then the heads and Perrin's hand were to be nailed up in public and their bodies cut into four quarters. The brothers Comparet received the sentence of decapitation and their bodies are to be quartered. All who didn't flee were executed. Two other men, Claude Galloys and Girard Thomas were put in a sort of pillory in two different parts of town. Galloys also received the sentence of having to carry a torch and ask for mercy. Berthelier's brother Francois-Daniel is among the victims of the repression. CALVIN JUSTIFIES the severity of their sentences.
加爾文認同這個判決跟加爾文殺人的說法距離太遠了吧!
From this survey of the life of John Calvin, we find that 38 people were executed during his time in Geneva. Some were burned alive. Others were decapitated and quartered afterward. Most were tortured first. Many more were imprisoned and tortured. The great majority of these people were accused of sorcery for spreading the Plague. For at least two men, the crime was little more than a public denunciation of Calvin himself. And in cases such a Michael Servetus, Calvin's premeditated determination to kill was made readily apparent by a letter written six years before Servetus had ever been brought to trial.
加爾文時代死了38個人跟加爾文殺了38個人也不是一回事吧。
估計那位基督徒說加爾文沒有殺人的理由就是加爾文沒有親自點火、沒有親自操刀。按這位的殺人定義來看,希特勒也沒殺人,許多納粹日本戰犯都沒有殺人。
希特勒和納粹日本戰犯都是直接殺人的命令者或執行者,這和加爾文時代當時的法庭處決當時的犯人的區別,只要不是瞎子,都能看得出來。 |
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