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es35

(132 posts) Tue Feb 23, 2016, 11:27 PM Feb 2016

Paul Ryan's hero is Thomas Aquinas.

It's a little known fact that St Thomas Aquinas thought it virtuous to burn heretics, and favoured the option of burning them alive.

URL: http://www.heretication.info/_hereticsI

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Paul Ryan's hero is Thomas Aquinas. (Original Post) es35 Feb 2016 OP

He is foresaking Ayn. applegrove Feb 2016 #1

Ryan is a calm faced Inquisitor es35 Feb 2016 #2

Many of these "devout" politicians would have done well in the 19th century Papal States. 47of74 Mar 2016 #4

Link busted Origen Feb 2016 #3

applegrove

(118,577 posts)

1. He is foresaking Ayn.

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 11:38 PM

Feb 2016

es35

(132 posts)

2. Ryan is a calm faced Inquisitor

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 09:35 AM

Feb 2016

I could see him calmly watching the heretics burn unmoved by their screams as they succumbed to the flames.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

4. Many of these "devout" politicians would have done well in the 19th century Papal States.

Reply to es35 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:31 AM

Mar 2016

Specifically before the Unification of Italy, when the Popes were far right despots that did everything they could to hold on to their temporal political power.

Origen

(4 posts)

3. Link busted

Reply to es35 (Original post)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 12:52 AM

Feb 2016

Your link is broken. I couldn't find any evidence that Aquinas burned heretics in my short online search.

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