Sentences with phrase «stake as a heretic»

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

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A trial ensued, in which Servetus was once again condemned as a heretic, and on October 27, 1553, was burned at the stake on top of a pile of his own books.

We should begin by making sure we don't metaphorically burn each other at the stake or label each other as heretics when we honestly disagree.

As a climate change skeptic, I suppose I should be grateful that they aren't burning us heretics at the stake... but then that would release carbon dioxide.

The Professor is the high priest of the Church of Climatology, and his devotees fear being charged as heretics and burned at the Stake if they don't go along with his ideology.