Couple of questions;
1. How many outdoor swimming pools are there in Switzerland?
2. Not many people have a 'smart' hot water heater. How do they plan to enforce setting it to 140? Don't most of us set it to around 140 anyway?
Are they gonna have guys banging on doors to check water temps? At least they haven't resorted to drowning anyone in the river in iron maidens yet.
It's not too long before the 'good' people of places like Geneva go full on 'S
ervetus' against heretics.
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The most famous execution occurred in 1553 Michael Servetus, a Unitarian. In that year he was passing through Geneva, fleeing the death sentence of the Catholic Church for his heretical views. Yet because of his lively interest in religious matters, he went to listen to Calvin, now one of the most famous leaders of the Reformation.
Unfortunately for Servetus, he had sent some of his papers to Calvin seven years earlier, questioning many established doctrines, including that of the Trinity (the three Persons of God). Calvin had responded roughly to Servetus, refusing even to return the papers. Calvin had even then condemned him, showing his full agreement with the judgment of the Catholic Church. He had written to a friend that if Servetus ever came to Geneva, "I will never let him depart alive, if I have any authority."
On that fateful day in 1553, Calvin recognized and denounced Servetus, who was promptly arrested and condemned as a heretic (one who disagrees with accepted beliefs). The laws of Geneva regarding heretics had changed several years earlier, and exile was the strictest penalty that remained.
Nevertheless, Calvin favored cutting Servetus' head off. The town went even further than this and burned the man alive… History records that he shrieked with agony when the flames reached his face, and burned for another half hour before dying ["The Renaissance," by Will Durant, pages 482-484]. Such facts trouble sincere people. Do they trouble you? And a very troubling question is, why do the people with "good doctrine" murder the people with "bad doctrine", and not the other way around?
The fact that the victims, like Servetus, often held heretical opinions tends to confuse the real issue for many Christians, namely: isn't such killing the bad fruit of a bad tree? While no one in America today would want Unitarians executed, assuredly Calvin would, and so would Luther, and most certainly Augustine and many other Catholic theologians. The history of their churches leaves absolutely no doubt about this.
If you travel to places run by nut jobs, whether it is Pyongyang, Tehran, Moscow or Geneva, be careful what you say/do/bring. Heresy is not tolerated by leftists.
