Monday, January 21, 2008

Killing the Re-baptised

Today saw the first believers' baptism of modern times in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1525. With Protestantism less than eight years old, a handful of its most radical proponents concluded that baptism was an adults-only activity, and rebaptised each other. For this crime, most of them were executed. (ship of fools dot com)

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