Paul Graham on Twitter: "The last person to be executed for heresy in Britain was a 20 year old student at Edinburgh University who in conversations with friends had described theology as "a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense." He was hanged in 1697. https://t.co/nSM8l5L1BC"

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1. Rikki Tissier‏ @rikkitissier Mar 15
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  He was hanged and had the last name Aikenhead?!
  
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1. Sam McRoberts‏Verified account @Sams_Antics Mar 15
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  “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “A heretic.”
  
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1. Dr. Debmalya Sinha‏ @debelop3D Mar 15
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  Madlad! Totally worth it!
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1. Robin Abbi‏ @bmbix_robin Mar 15
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  Somebody ought to write an essay about What You Can't Say.
  
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1. Daniel Petkevich‏ @DP5423 Mar 15
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  “That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation”
  
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1. Clemens Wasner‏ @ClemensWasner Mar 15
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  right idea, wrong timing. However it seems that in medieval UK the co-existence between clergy & science was less explosive than in continental Europe. Good read on that topichttps://www.amazon.com/Light-Ages-Surprising-Medieval-Science/dp/132400293X …
  
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1. Roy‏ @RoySnapir Mar 15
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  "His execution occurred 85 years after the death of Edward Wightman (1612), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England."
  
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1. Roy‏ @RoySnapir Mar 15
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  "... legislated that anyone who should rail upon and curse God or the Trinity,[1] even if 'distracted', should be punished. The punishment was the death penalty."
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