Rights of Heretics (This book is dedicated to the lovers of freedom by Jin)

Author: (Austrian) Stefan Zweig / Ren Xiaojin / Fang Hong / Yin Rui
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: In a world that solely celebrates the monuments of victors, The Rights of the Outcasts—Castiglione vs. Calvin constantly reminds us that our true heroes are not those who built fleeting reigns by piling up mountains of corpses, but rather those who, without resistance, succumb to the force of the victors—just as Castiglione was overwhelmed by Calvin in his struggle for spiritual freedom and to establish a humanistic kingdom on Earth. Heresy is a relative concept. A person burned as a criminal in one country may be revered as a martyr in another. Who has the right to control a fellow citizen's thoughts, or to judge their most private and intimate beliefs as a crime using secular law? The state cannot, and no existing authority can! A truth may invoke the name of God a thousand times, but it has no right to destroy another life bestowed by God, for this life is more sacred than any doctrine. We must constantly remind this world that only sees victors that our true heroes are not the rulers who achieve fleeting empires by amassing mountains of corpses, but rather the people who, without the strength to resist, are oppressed by those in power!