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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:16 pm
I did know that this stuff was still going on to an extent but I guess I didn't realize how wide spread this actually was. What a disgusting thing. It makes me so mad that people think they have the right to treat another human being like that. However, my main point is that, specifically in the US in the late 1600's, everyone believed in witches and between 1692-1693 they would send them through courts of the legal system and if found guilty of witchcraft they were hung, burned, or drowned to death. Nowadays, sure some people still may believe that witches cause the droughts to prevent crops from growing but I would say the majority of the population, in the US, no longer believes this and they certainly aren't persecuting people in courts for witchcraft anymore. I was just wondering what triggered this realization that caused this change in belief or at the very least the realization that maybe its not right to burn people for things based on absolutely no concrete evidence.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Harry Potter is doing amazingly well.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Hermione too! 
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:38 pm
I have seen those videos about the child witches. It makes me so freaking sick!!!!
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Sigh.
This video makes me hate religion more than ever.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm
(January 25, 2012 at 11:00 pm)Blam! Wrote: Yet another reason why religion should be repressed from power.
First you would have to get 'religion' (re-)classified as witchcraft, which it IS of course.
Good luck.
But should you succeed, I would reinstate witch burning. For a few years only! Because when religion is officially classified witchcraft you will have hundreds of thousands of pastors, priests, bishops, cardinals, ministers, vicars, mullahs, ayatollahs, khalifas, rabbis, and monks – a.k.a. witches – to deal with! And what better way?
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 26, 2012 at 12:21 am
(January 25, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: (January 25, 2012 at 11:00 pm)Blam! Wrote: Yet another reason why religion should be repressed from power.
First you would have to get 'religion' (re-)classified as witchcraft, which it IS of course.
Good luck.
But should you succeed, I would reinstate witch burning. For a few years only! Because when religion is officially classified witchcraft you will have hundreds of thousands of pastors, priests, bishops, cardinals, ministers, vicars, mullahs, ayatollahs, khalifas, rabbis, and monks – a.k.a. witches – to deal with! And what better way?
I wouldn't want to reinstate the such thing that can led the bloodshed of millions. But there should be crackdown against the such barbaric behavior like witch hunting condoned by Christians.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 26, 2012 at 12:50 am
(January 26, 2012 at 12:21 am)Blam! Wrote: there should be crackdown against the such barbaric behavior like witch hunting condoned by Christians.
But 'such barbaric behavior' condoned by non-Xtians is OK?
Well all is fine then because there won't be any Xtians left after your abolition of religion.
And who wants to miss out on a good BBQ party, eh?
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 26, 2012 at 1:48 am
(January 26, 2012 at 12:50 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: But 'such barbaric behavior' condoned by non-Xtians is OK? Of course not.
(January 26, 2012 at 12:50 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: Well all is fine then because there won't be any Xtians left after your abolition of religion.
And who wants to miss out on a good BBQ party, eh? Even although I have strong anti-theistic views, but I'm all for freedom of religion. And my good BBQ party is open for nice people regardless of of their religion. Oh, I have all-you-can-drink ales in my BBQ party. 
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 26, 2012 at 2:04 am
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(January 26, 2012 at 1:48 am)Blam! Wrote: my good BBQ party is open for nice people regardless of of their religion. Oh, I have all-you-can-drink ales in my BBQ party.
That kinda limits the nice people, doesn't it? Drunks, of the male persuasion, are a stupid nuisance. Females is a different story of course! 
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