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What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I was curios as to what realization did people come to back in the witch hunting days that made them stop believing in witches? I know it had to have been a somewhat slow phase-out but the belief seems like it did end rather abruptly. I tried googling and I just couldn't find anything that discussed it. However, I was actually quite surprised how many people still believe this stuff based on my search results.
I was hoping to find something that will help the modern world wake up and grow up out of their fantasies.
“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. ”
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 5:30 pm
I can assure you that witches exist, my friend... they exist.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 5:32 pm
The Enlightenment. But honestly, people still believe in witches - even in this country.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Who says they stopped believing in witches? In Africa, they still hunt down & kill children they suspect of being witches, and a few years back on another message board a fundie was claiming that there are witches everywhere.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 5:58 pm
They claim it every Halloween and every time a metal song comes out.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 7:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2012 at 7:31 pm by Ziploc Surprise.)
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 10:42 pm
People still believe in god too.
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RE: What happened to the witches?
January 25, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Yet another reason why religion should be repressed from power.