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Why Sir Thomas More is Burning in Hell

Tom Kirkendall has "The Trial of St. Thomas More" videos here.  I used to respect Thomas More; and I can quote A Man for All Seasons.  Yet here is something most don't know: Thomas More burned Lutherans at the stake.  So the man who would "give the Devil benefit of law," burned people to death for not accepting Catholic dogma.  That's not anyone I'll respect or admire.  If there is a God, and a Heaven and Hell: I know where Thomas More is!Incidentally, More and Justice Antonin Scalia share a psychological profile.  St. Thomas More believes in procedural - but not substantive - due process.  He would give the Devil the benefit of legal processes.  However, like Justice Scalia, More would allow anything to be a crime.  There is no substantive right to believe or not believe anything...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).