Christian History 1600 to 1699
1600
Giordano Bruno, a Dominican monk, was burned at the stake for heresy after having been incarcerated for seven years. He was executed in Campo deiFiori on February 17, 1600.
1603
A young and partly Jewish Franciscan friar named Frei Diogo Da Assumpcao, was arrested while trying to flee to England after he was found out to have become interested in Judaism. He was held in prison and subjected to constant attempts to force him to renounce Judaism. During his imprisonment, he maintained practicing Judaism lighting candles on Friday nights and such. Finally realizing he would not recant, he was burned alive in Lisbon. He was only twenty five years old. His arguments against Christianity were published and gained popularity.
1612
Governor Thomas Dale ordered the arrest of some English colonists who found life among the natives attractive enough to leave Jamestown. Others were hung, some burned and others still broken, staked and shot to death.
"This was the treatment for those who wished to act like Indians. For those who had no choice in the matter, because they were the native people of Virginia" methods were different "when an Indian was accused by an Englishman of stealing a cup and failing to return it, the English response was to attack the natives in force, burning the entire community down.”
In Massachusetts, New England Puritan Christians, refugees from persecution in their home country of England, were committing genocide which is now known as the Pequot War.
The puritan commander-in-charge John Mason, after one massacre, wrote thus: “"And indeed such a dreadful terror did the Almighty let fall upon their Spirits, that they would fly from us and run into the very flames, where many of them perished ... God was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven ... Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies".
So "the Lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts,and to give us their land for an inheritance".
Other Indians were killed in successful plots of poisoning. The colonists also had dogs which were trained to kill Indians and to devour children from their mothers’ breasts.
The handful of Indians that survived was parceled out to become slaves.
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