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Checked wikipedia. I found the following crimes that the church executed people for:
Being a (crypto) Jew, criticizing the papacy, being an atheist, saying Jesus was from Kongo, witchcraft.
Anyone else got some crimes to add? I don't count the local authorities executing someone for whatever a holy book says, but the Catholic/protestant/orthodox church did
Presenting myself as a parallel pope?
Is there an actual account of someone being executed for saying Jesus was from Kongo? I am not doubting they executed people for ridiculous reasons, but that one just stuck out to me as just... Was it just specifically Kongo or claiming he was from somewhere else than their scriptures claim?
Summary of Wikipedia: Kimpa Vita, burned as a heretic. Religious tenets among others: Jesus, Mary and Saint Francis were born in Kongo.
The real reason for being executed was probably because she was a threat to people in power, not that she claimed something silly.
I know it's slightly more than 400 years, but: Science, aka. heresy in those days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno
Ahhh the good ole....wait a minute...
Buggery.
Do you have a wikipedia article? I'd like to read it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men
Ah, sorry. I meant someone executed by the church for it.
My bad, have the tendency to take any online discussion initially as a joke.
https://stewardshipreport.org/englands-first-sodomy-law-saw-hundreds-put-to-death/
Not a wiki but had some good info. Couldn't find cited sources but checked out with the buggery act wiki page.
... witchcraft?