I don't understand the importance of posting anything relating to "Witch Trials" of the past.
Let's think about this for a second. Historically, have there ever been any CONFIRMED cases in which a Witch was tried in any trial? Most (if not all) of the time, during any of the "trials" that have taken place through time, the people tried were innocent people who were "mistaken" or unfairly accused of practicing Witchcraft (and it probably wasn't even Witchcraft to begin with).
Take the infamous "Salem Trials" for example. What does this REALLY have to do with modern Witches, and why is this really relevant to anything we do today? No one during that time was a Witch. They were Christians who were either 1) unfortunate to ingest rye bread infected with a fungus and thus contributed to hallucinations, which caused people to see things that weren't actually there or to act in strange ways (at least strange to the time), or 2) unfortunate victims of false accusations either so the other party could gain what the accused possessed (they accused "said person" merely because they wanted what they had, and this got them out of the way, leaving what they desired up for grabs) or merely out of rivalry (they had a feud with their neighbor, and to end the feud, they accused them of practicing Witchcraft, thus getting the "troublesome" neighbor out of the way).
What does ANY of this have to do with Witchcraft, and why do we focus on these things? It seems almost redundant to focus so hard on this event. It really has nothing to do with us other than the unfortunate fact that the term "Witchcraft was used and innocent people were killed because of that term.
Again, let's take places like the Middle East who abhor anyone or anything that is not mainstream and in accordance to their beliefs, and even condemn it to the point of killing. People are killed almost regularly in these countries simply because people have opened their minds to something that isn't "commonly taught". Any act that isn't in accordance to their beliefs (that could be the use of natural remedies, for example) could be considered Witchcraft. If you're accused, you're basically doomed. You can try to plead you case, but in the end, you're condemned, and brutally punished (people are still stoned in this day and age, can you believe that???????). Again, what does this have to do with ACTUAL Witchcraft, and why is it important for us to know that these people are dying as a result of the word "Witchcraft"? None of these people are actually practicing!!.
I can understand it being important to understand history and the deaths of people who were killed as a result of ACTUALLY practicing Witchcraft, but it doesn't make any sense to focus on those who didn't actually practice anything. It makes sense to understand people dying for actually practicing something, being accused, tried and then being killed for it, but people being killed for merely being accused of something (NOT actually practicing anything) doesn't make sense to focus on. It boggles my mind why people are so bent on being bitter about people dying as a result of blind ignorance.
I feel it would be more important to focus on those who DID die for their practices, not because some dumbass didn't like what someone else was doing; that that person was doing something NOT mainstream, and decided to kill them because they didn't like them doing something against what was common.
I'm growing increasingly tired of all this nonsense of "Remember the Burning Times" and the "Salem Witch Trials". Why? So we can remember how crappy IGNORANT Christians can be so we can go on hating them? (and I don't mean all Christians when I say "Ignorant Christians"...I'm referring to the ones who are WILLFULLY ignorant). And why the hell are people so bitter about them in the first place? It's like people see the word "Christian" and they go off on a tangent about how "Oh, all Christians are bad because they hate us because they think we're all Satanists, so we must hate them back; you know, eye for an eye, and all that". Ugh, it makes me sick.
Ma’iingan
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