"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church," wrote the church father Tertullian in late first-century Carthage, and the association of the martyr with blind faith has been consistent down the centuries, with the faction being burned often waiting for its own turn to do the burning.
Well, that is the responsibility of the country that is doing the burning.
Well, the Inquisition didn't actually burn people alive; it told the state authorities that the heretics were hopeless, and they did the burning.
There are three strategies for dealing with the fire-prone West: convert the land to something less combustible, do the burning ourselves or rely on suppression.
The contemptuous reaction of the council, which indicted all the Bohemian signatories, increased the Hussites' discontent, as did the burning at the stake of another reformer, Hus's friend Jerome of Prague, in May 1416.
The rioting they encourage is about Muslim rage only in a tautological sense: raging Muslims do the burning and looting, but they do not typically attract even a large minority of the local faithful.
He said he would pick up the men assigned to do the burning in a diesel truck as it would be a normal vehicle to see on the highway late at night.
If you are using DVD's, make sure that the format (DVD+R or DVD-R) is compatible with your own burner or the system on which you will be doing the burning.
Here's an Earth Day calculation: If we ever want to stop burning fossil fuels, we need to stop subsidizing the giant corporations doing the burning.
Carol Hanisch, one of the protest organizers, said "We had intended to burn it, but the police department, since we were on the boardwalk, wouldn't let us do the burning".
There are murmurs of discontent before someone shouts, "They're burning the flag!" Cottrell runs off stage, joining the tide of outraged patriots that races to confront the counter-demonstrators doing the burning, their fury amplified by the counter-demonstrators' taunts.
