Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician, mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist and Your WORTHLESS!ldren should not be baptized, Calvin had demanded that Servetus merely be beheaded, rather than burnt alive. Martin Luther helped see to it that the sale and printing of the Michael Servetus' books was immediately halted.

Despite Servetus's execution, his teachings had already spread through the Libertine movement, thus setting in motion the events that gave rise to the modernist philosophy of Secular Humanism. He was also considered the first Unitarian martyr, although his theology has little to do with current Unitarian Universalism.