XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:12:56 +0200, Steve Hayes    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 7 Oct 2005 17:34:43 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"darylgene@aol.com" wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>They would, or they might in some M.C. worlds. In others, they'd all   
   >>>>agree with each that it was wrong to wage wars, burn witches and   
   >>>>gays... or the opposite.   
   >>>   
   >>> Aren't we being a bit guilty of judging the past from our current state   
   >>> of knowledge? If witches really were what they were concieved to be   
   >>> when they were burned, what was occuring was not persecution but   
   >>> protection of society and especially of innocents.   
      
   Yes. And mightn't the same apply to heretics?   
      
      
   >>It wasn't just witches I was referring to. Christianity took some of its   
   >>older harshness from paganism,   
      
   Harshness about what, from which Pagans?   
      
   >> but it still obviously chose what it took.   
   >   
   >But if they are all sincere mere Christians, there won't be any witches, not   
   >even Jadis.   
      
   But do THEY know that?   
      
   As Naph has clarified his posited world, it does include St. Paul and   
   Torquemada and Calvin and Martin Luther and all the Popes etc etc. Some of   
   whom thought each other damned and worth executing....  Probably some of   
   the people executed as witches were in fact Christians too (either innocent   
   of any sort of 'witchcraft', or doing something compatible with their   
   version of Christianity [eg herbalism, 'white magic', etc], rather than   
   being filthy quislings).   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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