She doesn't look like a witch.
Posted on 10/26/2007 11:40:54 AM PDT by blam
Ping.
But we are doing the same thing as they did, right now, with Global Warming.
This is what happens when you give people too much power over you. Like socialists, they will attempt to control every aspect of your life if they don’t like how you think or speak.
She doesn't look like a witch.
Political correctness too. (And, calling everything racist)
bttt
Maybe it was just a very bad year for witches and the were justly condemned.
Yes, and no.
If I truly believed that a person was in legue with the Devil, and using powers of the Devil to kill other people — people I loved -— I could see knocking them off.
The distinction being that I do not believe the evil forces of the world work like that.
All that said, the untold part of the story is that several the little girls involved were actually dabbling in (what they believed to be) witchcraft taught to them by a slave that practised some sort of African pagan religion (probably something similar to what we’d now call VooDoo) -— starting the whole fiasco.
Something rarely mentioned about the Spanish Inquisition and witch trials, is that they were demanded by the public before they went astray. Usually because the public have become fed up with criminals, perverts and annoying people making mischief.
Also, it is important to note that belief in witches was held by many of the common people, even those accused of witchery. And no doubt, there were some who actively tried to become witches, just as there are today. Except back then, they did so for nefarious purposes.
Today, what would the Secret Service do if somebody was selling voodoo dolls with the President’s face on them in a community that heavily believed in voodoo? While it does not reflect a direct threat on the President’s life, it is still a threat.
Duke LAX.
Actually the left acts like everyday is a Salem Witch trial, accusing Republicans of one thing or another.
...never mind
IIRC, few, if any, people were killed as witches in nations with the Inquistion. The Inquistion, as hard as it is to believe now, was probably an advancement in jurisprudence.
The parallel to this was the hysteria that swept the country 10 years ago when over-zealous investigators and social workers were ‘uncovering’ satanic day care centers by aggresively interrogating small children.
A weak rendition of what the Vatican did a few centuries earlier. Nobody burns witches like the Vatican.
The Inquisition was originally created in order to put a stop to the practice of local authorities using heresy cases for political purposes. The church was in the business of saving souls, not eliminating enemies. It got out of hand when combined with secular authority as in the case of the Spanish Inquisition.
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