Paul Ryan's hero is Thomas Aquinas.

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It's a little known fact that St Thomas Aquinas thought it virtuous to burn heretics, and favoured the option of burning them alive.

URL: http://www.heretication.info/_hereticsI

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1. He is foresaking Ayn.

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2. Ryan is a calm faced Inquisitor

I could see him calmly watching the heretics burn unmoved by their screams as they succumbed to the flames.

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4. Many of these "devout" politicians would have done well in the 19th century Papal States.

Specifically before the Unification of Italy, when the Popes were far right despots that did everything they could to hold on to their temporal political power.

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3. Link busted

Your link is broken. I couldn't find any evidence that Aquinas burned heretics in my short online search.