How to Prevent a Fellow Human Being From Hell

"If you seriously believe that someone who did not hold the Catholic faith and who voluntarily rejected it would be tortured physically and spiritually forever and ever and ever in hell. You would resort to almost any means to preserve a fellow human being from such a fate," he writes. "You would first of all reason with him and if he was not responsive to reason you would resort to abuse and to force for argument." He adds: "As a last desperate resort you would burn him at the stake in the pious hope that in the midst of those searing fires he would think better and so be rescued from everlasting damnation"