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I know this is a travel board but I thought this was interesting. On a trip this summer to Prague, we learned about Jan Hus. I am not ignorant about Church history but had never heard of him even though as a Church reformer he pre-dated Martin Luther by a hundred years. I guess it was because Calvin and Luther won and Jan's supporters lost resulting in poor Jan being burned at the stake. Anyway, I was under the impression that his followers had disappeared.

Then I was reading the American football scores and saw a notation about a Moravian College playing some other little school in the Northeastern part of the U.S. That peaked my interest. Why would there be a Moravian College when that was a part of what is now the Czech Republic. Turns out it was part of the Moravian Church which traces its foundation back to.......Jan Hus. The refuges from Moravia found a protector in what is now Germany and give them a settlement where they thrived. They sent out missionaries all over the world and today there are quite a number of Churchs in the U.S especially in the northeast, Florida and California. The largest group are in Africa where missionaries found fertile ground. In total there are 800,000. So when you see the statue of poor Jan in the square in Prague remember his legacy lives on.

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True - Europe has a long tradition of hatching religious splinter sects :) In the case of Jan Hus, before you get all gooey about him, keep in mind that the followers of his socialist sect caused no end of misery and death in their campaigns across central Europe, believing that all people not of true faith should be killed. The US's famed founding father pilgrims were also such nutters, so ridiculously badly prepared that many of them died and the rest were only kept alive by kind intervention of the godless settlers in the trading town of New Amsterdam, later New York.

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Jeroen, you must be kidding regarding your statement bellow. Before you start posting offensive twisted declarations read some facts about Hussite history. Well, you can have obviously your opinion but do not present it as a common belief.

True - Europe has a long tradition of hatching religious splinter sects :) In the case of Jan Hus, before you get all gooey about him, keep in mind that the followers of his socialist sect caused no end of misery and death in their campaigns across central Europe, believing that all people not of true faith should be killed.

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