What a fantastically Satanic doctrine! To think that burning people alive can ever be a good thing? These people [Catholics] are seriously sick and twisted! As if a burning person's 'recant' amounted to anything more than begging to have the fires quenched. What a sick, sick church.
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What few people seem to realize, though, is that the Catholics don't have a monopoly on witch hunts.
Oh, come now. Let's not forget that the early reformers, like John Calvin and Martin Luther, were fond of burning their enemies and having them tortured. And the Salem witch trials? Protestants, not Catholics, perpetrated that atrocity.
What a fantastically Stupid doctrine! To think that masturbating over burning people alive can ever be a good thing? These people [Right-wing Fundamental ist Christians] are seriously sick and twisted! As if a burning person amounted to anything more than unjustifiable revenge fantasies for them. What a sick, sick belief system.
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@Salem Witch Trials Comments: Weren’t accused witches in Salem hanged rather than burned?
I’d rather like to see the context to this, but the link goes to the wrong thread. I just want to know if he’s saying this because he thinks the Catholic Church is still actively burning people.
Most "witches" were hanged, or drowned or tortured to death by accusers demanding a confession. In America and Europe. Hanging is quicker, cheaper and a reusable resourse.
That's it, simpler to hang, especially when you're taking out ten "witches" at a time.
They burnt some for sheer theatre, a spectacle, an event to fire up and test the resolve of followers.
@ I Read About The Afterlife.
You should definitely take a bite of your own medicine. Quit your own holier-than-thou attitude.
and get your facts right, because there were no burnings at the salem witch trials.
I'm 100% secular btw. if you want to take a jab.
Actually witches were not usually burnt alive but strangled by the executioner as the fires were lit. However, while 'witches' were executed in Protestant countries, it was at a much lower rate than in Catholic ones. The reason why Salem is so iconic in US culture is because it was so unusual in the New World. In Catholic Europe such episodes were routine.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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