re: #103 BignJames

Well, yeah. After the church burned/imprisoned a few (hunedred/thousands?) for heresy.

Overall executions for heresy probably number close to 800,000. Witchcraft executions probably number between 100,000-300,000 (very hard to estimate, too many records got lost). Albigensian Crusade probably accounted for a good 150,000 over a century or so; various other large-scale persecutions may have amounted to 250,000. The rest is accounted for by fairly constant action by the Inquisition.

Again, the numbers aren’t as clear as one would like. Heresy sometimes got tossed in - or out - with a number of other, civil crimes.