Look at this picture. This is not some Roman Catholic killing a Protestant. This is a Protestant drowning another Protestant, specifically, an Anabaptist, because he believed that baptism was only reserved to adults, and therefore, opposed infant baptism.
If they, the Magisterial Protestants (mainly Lutherans, Reformed) thought that by killing the Anabaptists they were doing away with "error", they were so wrong.
In their martyrdom, the Anabaptists showed the Magisterial Reformers that they DID have the valour to follow their convictions to the end, even when those who were supposed to be on their side, set themselves against them.
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