Did we burn witches?

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I was reading the news. Someone said the following about the Catholic Church…
“Lest We Forget this is the same Church that burned and stoned people to death for opposing the Church’s teachings of the earth being flat and people accused of being witches.”

Now I was always of the mind that it was the protestants who were into burning witches. Am I wrong?🤷 Help me here folks.
 
The only confrimed instance of witch hunts that I have heard of was in Salem, MA, and they were hanged instead of burned. Plus, Salem was a Puritan settlement. Puritans believed anyone who could swim or read was a witch. People just like to blame Catholics because of the typical asinine prejudices and ad hominem feelings.
 
Shellac said:
I was reading the news. Someone said the following about the Catholic Church…
“Lest We Forget this is the same Church that burned and stoned people to death for opposing the Church’s teachings of the earth being flat and people accused of being witches.”

Now I was always of the mind that it was the protestants who were into burning witches. Am I wrong?🤷 Help me here folks.
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Here’s a very good article on the subject:

catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=4005&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=642287
 
The whole accusation of the Church burning witches/heretics/“free-thinkers” is false.

In fact, the “evil” Inquisition came about to give a better judicial hearing to the defendant – something that the secular courts were ignoring. The State courts, in fact, were the ones that burned people at the stake, not by the Church. In most cases, all that the Church wanted was a sincere confession and subsequent repentance.

EDIT: And yes, the Puritans and Protestants were the big witch hunters. What is a more infamous example than Salem, Massachusetts? That was a purely Puritan town, too.
 
My grandmother (with a bunch of greats in front,) was one of the women hung in Salem after being accused of being a witch.
There were no Catholics in Salem at that time.
Poor women.😦
 
Prague said:
My grandmother (with a bunch of greats in front,) was one of the women hung in Salem after being accused of being a witch.
There were no Catholics in Salem at that time.
Poor women.😦
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…and ***why ***were there no Catholics in Salem?
 
Shellac said:
I was reading the news. Someone said the following about the Catholic Church…
“Lest We Forget this is the same Church that burned and stoned people to death for opposing the Church’s teachings of the earth being flat and people accused of being witches.”

Now I was always of the mind that it was the protestants who were into burning witches. Am I wrong?🤷 Help me here folks.
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Whoever is making this statement is not basing it on any fact.

The Church never taught that the earth was flat-- that being a matter of science and not faith/morals. Morevoer, Vatican astronomers and all learned people of the time knew it was no such thing. The Church did NOT burn or stone anyone for teaching the world was not flat.

As for witches, on the whole, no the Catholic Church did not do so. There were women accused of sorcery that did come before the various inquisitions. But, capital punishment was the realm of the civil authorities, not the Church. And, overall it was the Protestant sects who hunted and killed supposed-witches on a widespread scale.
 
Sadly, too many people who feel they have to ‘sound off’ whenever they can about "You Catholics and your burning and your Inquisitions and flat earth and yadda yadda’, even after being provided with proof positive that their assertions were based on lies, distortions, and misinterpretations, would come right back with:

"Don’t confuse me with facts about the Catholic Church! I’m much happier believing and spreading the comforting LIES!"😦
 
Tantum_ergo said:
Sadly, too many people who feel they have to ‘sound off’ whenever they can about "You Catholics and your burning and your Inquisitions and flat earth and yadda yadda’, even after being provided with proof positive that their assertions were based on lies, distortions, and misinterpretations, would come right back with:

"Don’t confuse me with facts about the Catholic Church! I’m much happier believing and spreading the comforting LIES!"😦
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It gets best when they quote Dan Brown’s works.
 
Apollos said:
…and ***why ***were there no Catholics in Salem?
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I believe that Catholicism was illegal in most of the colonies. Maryland was the big exception where Catholicism was fully legal and Pennsylvania where it was tolerated.
 
Shellac said:
I was reading the news. Someone said the following about the Catholic Church…
“Lest We Forget this is the same Church that burned and stoned people to death for opposing the Church’s teachings of the earth being flat and people accused of being witches.”

Now I was always of the mind that it was the protestants who were into burning witches. Am I wrong?🤷 Help me here folks.
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There were witch-burnings in ‘Early Modern’ Europe in both Catholic and Protestant Europe (not England where very few were burnt). While there have been vast over-estimates of the numbers, it was a pretty significant series of events.
 
Shellac said:
I was reading the news. Someone said the following about the Catholic Church…
“Lest We Forget this is the same Church that burned and stoned people to death for opposing the Church’s teachings of the earth being flat and people accused of being witches.”

Now I was always of the mind that it was the protestants who were into burning witches. Am I wrong?🤷 Help me here folks.
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The Hammer of Witches came from Germany and I think Protestant Europe was involved in the Witches trial. Henry VIII who started the reformation in the UK beheaded Anne Boleyn for being a witch and Protestants did participate in the witch hunt. Witches were baby killers and involved in abortion aswell as infanticide at birth. They were also poison cooks and put abortifacient herbs in peoples’ food. They were accused of having orgies and killing babies at the witches’ sabbath (black mass).

Witchcraft has revived in Britain since the 50s and then abortion grew in power in the 60s. Witchcraft has also revived due to the New Age movement who were inspired by pagan religions. I don’t believe in burning witches but some people would say baby killers are witches.
 
Slightly off point, but always a nice point of reference, the rational, enlightened, non Catholic French Revolution killed more people in the few years of The Terror than the Inquisition did in its entire multi century span.
 
budgie2 said:
The Hammer of Witches came from Germany and I think Protestant Europe was involved in the Witches trial. Henry VIII who started the reformation in the UK beheaded Anne Boleyn for being a witch and Protestants did participate in the witch hunt. Witches were baby killers and involved in abortion aswell as infanticide at birth. They were also poison cooks and put abortifacient herbs in peoples’ food. They were accused of having orgies and killing babies at the witches’ sabbath (black mass).
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If you believe the propaganda of the witch-craze.
 
thegreypiper said:
Slightly off point, but always a nice point of reference, the rational, enlightened, non Catholic French Revolution killed more people in the few years of The Terror than the Inquisition did in its entire multi century span.
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It might be argued (and is), of course, that there was an intrinsic commonality - they were both trying to establish perfect, unified, societies comprised of people with perfectly formed values.

In other words, Inquisition was the parent of Terror.
 
Kaninchen said:
It might be argued (and is), of course, that there was an intrinsic commonality - they were both trying to establish perfect, unified, societies comprised of people with perfectly formed values.

In other words, Inquisition was the parent of Terror.
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Rubbish.
 
Kaninchen said:
It might be argued (and is), of course, that there was an intrinsic commonality - they were both trying to establish perfect, unified, societies comprised of people with perfectly formed values.

In other words, Inquisition was the parent of Terror.
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The French Revolution erupted as the result of secularism and liberal democracies spreading throughout France. The only difference is that the “liberal” democracy was not very “liberal” given that France itself even restricted its people more than before.

To say the Inquisition was the parent of the French Revolution is truly, like the poster before me said, rubbish. With no historical foundation coupled with the fact that the French Revolution caused by hatred of religion.
 
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