In Senegambia, Lat Dior Ngone Latir Diop (1842-1886), the Damel of Cayor, sent a letter in 1882 to Governor
Servetus to show his disapproval of the building of the railway:
In the meantime Tuininga manages to remove many of the misconceptions about Calvin's position by merely referring to the sources and proving that the widely held ideas about Calvin's role in, for example, the controversies over predestination and the heretic
Servetus are simply wrong.
The long list of victims includes philosophers (e.g., Socrates), scientists (Galileo), physicians (Michael
Servetus), novelists (Salman Rushdie), cartoonists (Kurt Westergaard), filmmakers (Theo van Gogh), journalists (Charlie Hebdo), political activists (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Neda Agha-Soltan, Avijit Roy, Raif Badawi, Bosch Fawstin...), and countless other thinkers who have been threatened or silenced.
The burning of
Servetus, however, turned Bodin toward liberal Protestantism.
The protestant churches on the other hand, so Linus suggested, were shirking their responsibility of political action, perhaps because they were still ashamed of what their predecessors had done to
Servetus and Sir Thomas More: '...
Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica was published near the middle of the sixteenth century, followed by the first correct description of cardio-pulmonary function in 1553 by theologian Michael
Servetus, several decades after the first cordiform maps were made.
"How many different enemies we have seen in our own time--the defenders of the pope's idols, the Jews, a multitude of Anabaptist monstrosities, the party of
Servetus and others.
They include letters, journal entries, poems, speeches, statutes, polemics, articles of religion, biographical accounts, council decrees, religious manuals, and narratives by or related to Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Michael Sattler, George Wishart, Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII, John Knox, Teresa of Avila, Jeanne de Jussie, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Ignatius of Loyola, John Wycliffe, John Whitgift, and Michael
Servetus. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
The most influential theologian was Michal
Servetus (1511-53), a friend of anti-Trinitarians.
Castalionis," it seems clear that this copy once belonged to Sebastian Castellio, Calvin's main critic in the
Servetus Affair and an early defender of toleration and religious freedom.
There is Calvin the father of modernity; Calvin the inventor of capitalism and ergo rampant consumerism; Calvin the militant; even Calvin the dictator of Geneva, hounding Michael
Servetus all the way to a fiery death at the stake.