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December 2025

December 30, 2025

Gavin Ortlund, Hus’s Burning, & Double Standards

+ several highly uncomfortable points of fact for those who deny that early Protestantism massively...

December 17, 2025

Early Protestant Leaders Damning Each Other: 40 Examples

Reformed Baptist and YouTube apologist Dr. Gavin Ortlund stated in his video, “The 5...

October 2025

October 23, 2025

Luther Favored Death for Heresy (Transcript)

His words are in blockquotes below, time-stamped to the video, so you can find...

June 2025

June 16, 2025

Calvin’s Successor Theodore Beza & Execution of Heretics

Theodore Beza (1519-1605) was a disciple of John Calvin and succeeded Calvin him as the...

June 11, 2025

Luther, Melanchthon, & Lutherans: Death to Anabaptists!

Martin Luther's words will be in green; Philip Melanchthon's in blue. I've written and...

June 09, 2025

John Calvin’s 1554 Defense of the Execution of Heretics

John Calvin's words will be in blue. I've written several times about the...

May 2025

May 01, 2025

Did Martin Luther Support the DEATH PENALTY for Heretics?

Was Martin Luther really a champion of religious tolerance? In this powerful video, Catholic...

April 2025

April 07, 2025

Luther: Execute Frigid Wives; Torture & Burn Witches

Including Two Examples of Luther's Espousal of Capital Punishment for Wrong or Aberrant Behavior Prior...

November 2024

November 22, 2024

James Swan Rationalizes Luther’s Intolerance Again

My title is a reaction to a thread at the virulently anti-Catholic CARM forum, in...

March 2024

March 21, 2024

Luther Favored Execution of Heretics (vs. Jordan Cooper)

+ Good & Bad Protestant & Catholic Apologetics & Historical Revisionism & "Twisting" Rev. Dr....

February 2024

February 07, 2024

Reply To Gavin Ortlund: Catholic Inquisitions; Hus

Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, scholar, and apologist for the Christian...

February 06, 2024

Reply to Gavin Ortlund: Albigensian Crusade

Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, scholar, and apologist for the...

March 2023

March 04, 2023

Elizabeth I and 512 Catholic Martyrs (vs. Lucas Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-day Adventist theology,...

September 2022

September 20, 2022

Refuting Lucas Banzoli’s “Catholic Slanders of the Reformation”

[see book and purchase information] Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who...

August 2022

August 05, 2022

“Reformation” Anti-Catholic Theft: Apologetic “Blind Spot”?

[originally posted on my blog on 20 April 2008. See my original post, “Reformation” Theft...

August 04, 2022

St. Thomas More: Noble Heroism Amidst Treachery & Madness

[originally written / edited in 1991] The most famous English martyr in the 16th century...

August 01, 2022

Persecution of Catholics in Scotland Up Till 1829

[originally posted on my blog on 10 March 2008] *** [Part II of the article, "Penal...

August 01, 2022

Anglican Persecution of Catholics: 1559-1829

[originally posted on my blog on 10 March 2008] *** [slightly abridged version of Part...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

16th Century Calvinist, Lutheran, & Zwinglian Intolerance

The following are excerpts from a two-volume hardcover set that I have in my library:...

July 27, 2022

Protestantism: Historical Cause of Religious Toleration?

Francisco Tourinho, a Brazilian Calvinist apologist (whom I've recently been debating on justification), wrote the...

June 2022

June 20, 2022

Protestants Executed Peaceful Anabaptists (vs. L. Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

June 20, 2022

Did Luther Cause the 1525 Peasants’ Revolt? (vs. Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

Penal Laws Against American Catholics: 1606-1789

[the first part below is an abridged version of Part IV of the article, "Penal Laws," in The...

September 29, 2020

English Persecution of Irish Catholics: 1536-1829 & Beyond

[Slightly abridged version of Part III of the article, "Penal Laws," in The Catholic Encyclopedia;...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

John Calvin Mocked Servetus’ Reaction to His Death Sentence

John Calvin -- whatever his commendable qualities were -- seems to have had a bit...

June 30, 2020

Lord Acton: Philip Melanchthon Persecuted Eucharistic Heretics

In my continuing searching for material regarding Philip Melanchthon's policies of persecution (particularly regarding the...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Luther: Death Penalty for Anabaptists & 1525 Peasants’ Revolt

Critique of James Swan's Misrepresentation on the Radio Show, Iron Sharpens Iron, with Chris Arnzen...

April 14, 2019

Protestant “Reformer” Martin Bucer: Death for Adulterers!

John 8:3-11 (RSV) The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught...

November 2018

November 08, 2018

16th c. Calvinists vs. Lutherans: Who Suppressed Catholics

Lutheran pastor and blogger Paul T. McCain has written a post decrying historic Calvinist iconoclasm and intolerance...

November 05, 2018

Dialogue w Lutheran Historian on 16th-Century Intolerance

The following exchange was taken from comments concerning an old paper now split into two...

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