Anyone come across this yet?

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I don’t buy it either, the 7-9 million number sounds outrageous, and while I could pretty much off hand just say it’s absurd I want to know where the numbers come from…
 
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According to this site Christianity is guilty of murdering 7-9 million women as witches and a bunch of other anti-womanhood stuff. What’s your take?

freetruth.50webs.org/A3.htm
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I’d first like to know the source of this. I can’t find any “about” link on the site. “They” obviously have an axe to grind, but I’d like to know who the “they” are.

I don’t think many Christians are afraid of our warts. There are many things that have been done in the name of the Church that none of us are particularly proud of. That said, if we’re keeping score, perhaps it might be helpful to add up the warts of secularism - Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, abortionists, the list goes on and on.

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A Christianised State and Clerics may have put many witches and innocents that had been convincted witches to the death penalty. The Church in Rome made no such action as a universal ecclesiastical law or action. It was states and clerics that commanded it so; NOT the magisterium of the Church.

Remember though, there were witches in those days that were rightly put to the death penalty!
 
DeusSalusNostra said:
A Christianised State and Clerics may have put many witches and innocents that had been convincted witches to the death penalty. The Church in Rome made no such action as a universal ecclesiastical law or action. It was states and clerics that commanded it so; NOT the magisterium of the Church.

Remember though, there were witches in those days that were rightly put to the death penalty!
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It wasn’t often where religious leaders got involved in matters such as witch hunting (which is really more of a tale than reality, as it is believed here in America), it was usually state officials, as you state.

It should also be noted though that in many of such cases, it wasn’t because of the officials’ belief in Christianity, but more because of remaining pagan habits and customs that many Christians held even after conversion (which is ironic, considering that we’re talking about witches). But centuries later, now, today, such action would be considered unthinkable.
 
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