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Pilgrim,

"Reckless Faith: When the Church Loses Its Will to Discern" by Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr. copyright 1994, Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL on page 202 states, "Of course, the Catholic Church is by no means the only religious body guilty of atrocities. Martin Luther consented to the deaths of thousands in the Peasants' Revolt in sixteenth-century Germany. Many leading Reformers joined the Catholics in calling for the deaths of the Anabaptists. John Calvin sanctioned the burning of Michael Servetus, an arch-heretic who was condemned by both Catholics and Calvinists for his anti-trinitarianism. Oliver Cromwell's Puritan armies treated Irish Catholics with appalling ruthlessness. Cromwell himself signed the death warrant when Charles I was executed. The Puritans in colonial Massachusetts executed four Quakers before making heresy a capital offense were repealed."

Do you accept this testimony by Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr. as evidences of bad fruit by all these men, including John Calvin?