Reformation and the Salem Witch Trials

VisionForum e-mail ^ | 10/31/02 | Douglas Phillips

[ppaul]

Correct link HERE.

[ppaul]

FYI

[APBaer]

"LESSON NUMBER TWO: STICK to GOD'S LAW"

How about:
"LESSON NUMBER THREE: POST RELIGION ARTICLES IN THE RELIGION FORUM?"

[ppaul]

POST RELIGION ARTICLES IN THE RELIGION FORUM

Huh?

Their correct understanding that church and state needed to be separate, but that all three governments of the family, the church, and the state must be under the law of God, would influence the constitutions of the colonies and later the United States Constitution. Their influence helped to create the most literate and well-educated citizenries in the history of Western Civilization.

That ain't just religion baby.
That's American history.

[gcruse]

With the Reformation came a greater reliance on Holy Scripture and
an opposition to the mysticism and superstitious bondage which had enslaved many
for centuries.

   Should that be "which has enslaved many for centuries."?

[spetznaz]

I had this librarian friend who is related to the only man killed during the Salem witch trials.

Official reason for death: Consort with the devil!

Real reason for death: being engaged to a lady who was desired by more powerful men.

[fortheDeclaration]

That ain't just religion baby. That's American history.

Good point.

[fortheDeclaration]

The witch trials of 1692 were wrong, not because it was inappropriate to drive witchcraft out of the land, but because the Salem leaders broke the very law of God in their attempt to advance the kingdom of God.

This is why Premillennial theology is important.

Those who think they are going to build God's Kingdom on earth without Christ always turn into bloody killers, wheather it be Rome, Geneva, or Salem.

[ppaul]

Or Marx. Or Lenin. Or Pol Pot. Or Kim Jung Il. Or Saddam Hussein.

[FormerLib]

The closest equivalent we have today to the Puritans of the witch trials is the religious right.

Incorrect! The closest thing we have today are the forces of political correctness from the Left, the Gaystapo, and the legions of lawsuit-filing Talibatheists!

[SkyPilot]

and they still love hunting satan and evil in the form of men.

That statement, is over-simplistic.

[billybudd]

girls who brought the false accusations of witchcraft were vindictive, emotionally driven, unaccountable minors who grew up in households where emasculated fathers refused to discipline their children or lead their families

Wow, that's pretty specific psychoanalysis. How'd he do that?

[billybudd]

a shining example of over reach of religious power

I think the word you want here is "glaring" not "shining".

[fortheDeclaration]

Or Marx. Or Lenin. Or Pol Pot. Or Kim Jung Il. Or Saddam Hussein.

And don't forget old Adolf!

But they are all pikers compared to the one that is coming (Rev.13)

[billybudd]

I was being serious. I'd like to see a source for the statement that the girls' fathers were "emasculated".