| − | '''Burning at the stake''' as a [[capital punishment]] throughout history had a long-established [[precedent]]. In the times of the [[Middle Ages|medieval period]] during the [[Inquisition]] it was inflicted by the [[secular]] authorities on those individuals and groups found by the judges of the Inquisition to be incorrigible [[Anarchism|anarchists]], [[Treason|traitors]] and [[Heresy|heretics]], all those who opposed the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and its civil authority. Since the beginning of the 20th century it has been regarded with horror by all who reject such measures as [[Barbarian|barbaric]] and inhumanly intolerant, and by the [[Christianity|Christian world]] as fundamentally opposed to [[The Gospel|the Gospel of Christ]]. | + | '''Burning at the stake''' as a [[capital punishment]] throughout history had a long-established [[precedent]]. In the times of the [[Middle Ages|medieval period]] during the [[Inquisition]] it was inflicted by the [[secular]] authorities on those individuals and groups found by the judges of the Inquisition to be incorrigible [[Anarchism|anarchists]], [[Treason|traitors]] and [[Heresy|heretics]], all those who opposed the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the civil authority of the [[State]]. Since the beginning of the 20th century it has been regarded with horror by all who reject such measures as [[Barbarian|barbaric]] and inhumanly intolerant, and by the [[Christianity|Christian world]] as fundamentally opposed to [[The Gospel|the Gospel of Christ]]. |