Editing Hussites (section)

===Radicals===
The more radical parties, the [[Taborites]], [[Orebites]] and [[Sirotčí|Orphans]], identified itself more boldly with the doctrines of [[John Wycliffe]], sharing his passionate hatred of the [[monasticism|monastic]] clergy,   and his desire to return the Church to its supposed condition during the time of the apostles. This required the removal of the existing hierarchy and the secularisation of ecclesiastical possessions. Above all they clung to Wycliffe's doctrine of the [[Eucharist|Lord's Supper]], denying [[transubstantiation]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cook |first1=William R. |title=John Wyclif and Hussite Theology 1415–1436 |journal=Church History |date=1973 |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=335–349 |doi=10.2307/3164390 |jstor=3164390 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3164390 |issn=0009-6407}}</ref> and this is the principal point by which they are distinguished from the moderate party, the [[Utraquism|Utraquists]].

The radicals preached the ''"sufficientia legis Christi"''—the divine law (i.e. the [[Bible]]) is the sole rule and canon for human society, not only in the church, but also in political and civil matters. They rejected therefore, as early as 1416, everything that they believed had no basis in the Bible, such as the [[veneration]] of saints and images, [[fasting|fasts]], superfluous holidays, the oath, intercession for the dead, auricular [[Confession (religion)|Confession]], [[indulgence]]s, the sacraments of [[Confirmation]] and the [[Anointing of the Sick]], and chose their own priests.

The radicals had their gathering-places all around the country. Their first armed assault fell on the small town of Ústí, on the river Lužnice, south of Prague (today's [[Sezimovo Ústí]]). However, as the place did not prove to be defensible, they settled in the remains of an older town upon a hill not far away and founded a new town, which they named [[Tábor]] (a play on words, as "Tábor" not only meant "camp" or "encampment" in [[Czech language|Czech]],<ref>{{cite book |first=Antonín| last=Profous |year=1957 |title=Místní jména v Čechách: Jejich vznik, původní význam a změny; part 4, S–Ž |publisher=Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences |location=Prague, Czechoslovakia}}</ref> but is also the traditional name of the mountain on which Jesus was expected to return; see [[Mark 13]]); hence they were called Táborité ([[Taborite]]s). They comprised the essential force of the radical Hussites.

Their aim was to destroy the enemies of the law of God, and to defend his kingdom (which had been expected to come in a short time) by the sword. Their end-of-world visions did not come true. In order to preserve their settlement and spread their ideology, they waged bloody wars; in the beginning they observed a strict regime, inflicting the severest punishment equally for murder, as for less severe faults as adultery, perjury, and [[usury]], and also tried to apply rigid Biblical standards to the social order of the time. The Taborites usually had the support of the [[Orebites]] (later called Orphans), an eastern Bohemian sect of Hussitism based in [[Hradec Králové]].