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   From: toomuchspam@spammer.org   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>It wasn't just witches I was referring to. Christianity took some of   
   >>its older harshness from paganism, 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.   
      
   So all those executed as witches were in fact genuine witches, rather   
   than mistakenly (and sincerely) accused Christians? And witches, mistaken   
   or genuine, were the only ones subject to cruel and unusual punishment?   
      
   Those are rhetorical questions, of course (and Bree makes the points in   
   them elsewhere). I have asked another question somewhere that wasn't   
   rhetorical, tho I did think I knew what the answer had to be. I don't   
   know if I was right yet.   
      
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