Beheading for "witchcraft"

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I've been thinking. (Look out below!)

Humans, on the whole, seem to go with the flow. If you give them a nice peaceful society, they go with that. If you publicly execute people all the time and make good sounding reasons for it, they'll go with that too. My guess is religion, very broadly speaking, probably contains a higher percentage of the kind of people who don't questions things too much. It takes those few to stand up and speak out against harm being done for change to happen. When religion is the thing doing the harm, it seems more likely it will be someone outside of it to speak up. Unless there isn't anyone outside it...

I know that's a huge generalisation. Am I close? Or way off?