IL PRIMO SOCIALISTA?

 Saw a great tiktok this morning about this guy.

Apparently he thought that "the Church" had lost its way, was stinking rich, exploitative and totally at odds with the teaching of Christ. 

Three guesses how this ended for him? Yup, public torture, castration, perhaps torn limb from limb, then burnt.

The details of his tale are fascinating. 

From wiki:-

inspired by the teachings of Francis of Assisi, his beliefs were condemned as heresy by the Catholic Church. The Papacy condemned their practices of poverty, liberty, and opposition to the feudal system as heresy. 

Funny, eh? The very ideals/teaching of Christ:- poverty, rejection of property & wealth, helping the poor and suffering was classed as heresy. 

Of course, this made him & his followers a criminal, so they fled to the mountains, as any good revolutionary guerilla would, and then took a darker path:-

From wiki again:-

According to the Roman Catholic Church and most historians of the period, Dolcino and his followers, in reaction to attacks by Catholic troops, became criminals (today they would probably be called guerrilla fighters), who would not hesitate, for their own survival, to plunder and devastate villages, killing any who opposed them, and burning their houses. He justified the actions committed by his followers in this period citing words attributed to Saint Paul in the Epistle to Titus (1:15): "To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted", as reported by the Anonymous Synchronous (???)  Dolcino maintained: "[...] that it was legitimate for him and his followers to hang, behead, [...] people who obey to the Roman church and burn down, destroy, [...] because they were acting to redeem them and thus without sin".

So hanging & beheading roman catholics was ok...