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.
“You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. ”
― Daniel C. Dennett
― Daniel C. Dennett
