the european witch burnings and the new world witch hunts were fueled by 'moral market share'

people are still mystified by the witchtrials of europe and the new world but if you look at them through occam's razor they make perfect sense

sociologically speaking the witchburnings in europe, as well as the witchhunts of the new world were about the bottom line of gathering your moral dollars. and were basically a type of superbowl event between catholicism and protestantism - that is, by condemning the meek (women are always 'the meek'), those institutions made you pay your way into their religion with your complicity and dollars, gathering you into their fold. for more and a better wording see this article at bottom

finally, the same principle's are occuring today and women especially should be scared. you think it can't happen today. but with the dispicable hatred of the religious right it is happening. and if people do nothing and religious conservatives win across america then the battle for your soul will again take place, not between god and the devil but between catholics and protestants, all the moreso because trump is protestant, and appeals to the militant patriarchical protestant stereotype.... catholics will feel left out and start a new protestation in order to out-moralize their competition....

Why Europe’s wars of religion put 40,000 ‘witches’ to a terrible death