Can't get the idea of this mod off my mind...

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter
Most famous heretics were pious - they weren't atheists. For example, Jan Hus and John Wycliffe came across as much more pious than the cynical church hierarchy whose practices they were opposing.

The word comes from the Greek, meaning "able to choose" - in other words, a free thinker. Heretics mainly rejected church doctrines and chose their own interpretations - as in the case of Hus, who refused to recant, even at the stake when offered freedom for doing so, unless he could be shown to be wrong according to the scriptures.

Just thought that might set your misgivings to rest.

Hmm, thanks for the info on the origins of the word heretic. I currently own several books on history (one exciting one which starts around 3200 b.c. and ends with the fall of the Western Empire). I understand that heretics tended to be rather pious, what I was humoured by was the fact that CA used a burning book to represent the heretics, which seems strange. Book-burning Heretics? I thought that was the Catholic churchs' domain ?

.... , back on topic!