2007-01-23 15:27:25 · 25 answers · asked by The Killer is Me 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People did this and it is a sin to murder then as it is today
2007-01-23 15:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus Freak 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When it became against the law. That is the when and why. If it was not against the law to burn "heretics" today, it would still be happening in the name of ______.
And for the people saying few X-tians burned people at the stake. Check your history, it was a time called slavery, jim crow era, civil rights era, where X-tains not only burned, raped, beat, and lynched other (Hebrew) X-tians, but also burned their churches. Until that became against the law. They also beat and persecuted Jews here.
Let's not lie and put in all on Catholics, K...
2007-01-31 16:50:14 · answer #2 · answered by lil_snipe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All kinds of Christians burned witches at the stake.
Interesting though, is that Catholics burned Bible believing Christians at the stake during the Reformation.
2007-01-23 23:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by Bob L 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure the mob must of burned some by the stake.
2007-01-23 23:32:32 · answer #4 · answered by animalmother 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of those burned at the stake were true Christians being persecuted for following their conscience. The perpetrators were religious pseudo-christians.
It has never been the custom of true followers of Jesus Christ to resort to such things, although sadly, there have been exceptions.
2007-01-23 23:32:46 · answer #5 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
About three hundred years ago in salem. Thats a people thing not religious. The death penalty you have is there from your government and judges, the same ones that took prayer out of class rooms.
2007-01-31 21:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Christian ever started burning anyone at a stake. Unfortunately for the church, there has not been a shortage of people who seize the name of Christ for their own ends. "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force" (Matthew 11:12).
2007-01-23 23:31:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
burning people is not a christian tenet to begin with. Those in the past who did this will have to answer to God. I imagine it stopped because people finally realized that is not what God desired. When did it stop? I don't know for sure.
2007-01-23 23:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by sheepinarowboat 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
punishments by Christians now include:
ridicule
prison
hunger
poor
homeless families
inferior educational systems
separate and un equal
red lining
racism
CEO buy out packages
inequity in health care, if you have any
do these things burn you up,
they should.
only in America
2007-01-31 19:32:48 · answer #9 · answered by Godis! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When politicians quit burning people at the stake.
The politicians set up the system of 'political correctness cops' back then.
Most christians do not and did not support this practice.
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2007-01-23 23:41:08 · answer #10 · answered by Jimmy Dean 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The price of steaks went thru the roof back in the summer of1788
2007-01-31 21:06:48 · answer #11 · answered by boatworker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋