Ikonen sind häufig zu unrecht Idole. Sie werden angehimmelt, verehrt, bewundert, respektiert, doch zu häufig sind sie ebenso ruchlos und blutrünstig wie wir alle. Martin Luther und John Calvin bloss zwei Beispiele:

John Calvin: Another key figure in the Protestant Reformation, founder of the Calvinist denominations that still exist today. When given the chance, he gained control of the city of Geneva and turned it into a brutal theocracy with himself as dictator, where torture was used to extract confessions and “blasphemous” speech was punishable by death. Dozens of people were burned at the stake for heresy, including the Spanish physician Michael Servetus, whose arrest and subsequent execution Calvin personally instigated when Servetus came to Geneva.¹

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