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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 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 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours 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.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

... witchcraft?