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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > One of the other Inklings, Charles Williams wrote a history of   
   > Christianity in relation to witchcraft. The title is simply   
   > "Witchcraft".   
   >   
   > It is worth reading if only to discover that the kind of behaviour you   
   > describe did not belong to the Middle Ages, but to Early Modern   
   > Europe.   
   >   
   > The Great European Witchhunt was a prduct of modernity, not of the   
   > Middle Ages. And, as Williams shows, it was an aberration, that lasted   
   > about 200 years.   
      
   200 years is a long time to wander from the truth.   
      
   > Many people speak as though witchhunting was   
   > "medieval". It wasn't (and isn't). It was, and is, modern.   
      
   Does that excuse it or absolve medieval Christians of their forms of   
   persecution? The Witchhunt shows that Christianity can, in the right   
   circumstances, become very aberrant. I don't know that Buddhism has ever   
   become so aberrant: you've still not told me whether you think a Japanese   
   Christianity with the same power as Japanese Buddhism would have behaved   
   better or worse.   
      
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