Movement of the Free Spirit, 1240-1280 - Propositions,
The indulgences of prelates do not help souls.
No one can give alms [if they deduct them] from their own surplus.
No rich man can be saved, and all the rich are miserly.
It is permissible to take from the rich and give to the poor.
No poor person can be damned, for they will all be saved.
There is no hell after Judgement Day.
As rust is consumed by fire, so all sin is consumed by poverty and annulled in the eyes of God.
Simple fortification is not a sin for those who live in poverty.
There are only three mortal sins: envy, avarice and ostentatious prodiglarity; and also having one’s wife when she is pregnant.
That which is called sin against nature is not a sin.
No man should take his wife more than three times a week.
If a woman is poor and indigent, she can give herself without sin.
Spokesman William Cornelius, died 1253, body exhumed and burnt by Nicholas of Fountains in 1258.
‘The lust of the poor is not a sin..’
