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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Checked wikipedia. I found the following crimes that the church executed people for:

Being a (crypto) Jew, criticizing the papacy, being an atheist, saying Jesus was from Kongo, witchcraft.

Anyone else got some crimes to add? I don't count the local authorities executing someone for whatever a holy book says, but the Catholic/protestant/orthodox church did

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I know it's slightly more than 400 years, but: Science, aka. heresy in those days.

Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno; January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600)

He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets (exoplanets), and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no center.

Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Ahhh the good ole....wait a minute...

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a wikipedia article? I'd like to read it.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, sorry. I meant someone executed by the church for it.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

My bad, have the tendency to take any online discussion initially as a joke.

https://stewardshipreport.org/englands-first-sodomy-law-saw-hundreds-put-to-death/

Not a wiki but had some good info. Couldn't find cited sources but checked out with the buggery act wiki page.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Presenting myself as a parallel pope?

[–] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there an actual account of someone being executed for saying Jesus was from Kongo? I am not doubting they executed people for ridiculous reasons, but that one just stuck out to me as just... Was it just specifically Kongo or claiming he was from somewhere else than their scriptures claim?

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Summary of Wikipedia: Kimpa Vita, burned as a heretic. Religious tenets among others: Jesus, Mary and Saint Francis were born in Kongo.

The real reason for being executed was probably because she was a threat to people in power, not that she claimed something silly.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

... witchcraft?