The Real Reason Behind The Witchhunts.

"Religion can become deeply involved in social conflict, particularly when the dominant religion is closely allied to the state. Between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries, the European clergy caused as many as half a million people to be tortured and murdered on the grounds of witchcraft and heresy. The victims ranged from old, widowed women to political and social deviants—Jews, Muslims, heretics, and critics of the political and religious leaders of the time. Fear of witchcraft helped to divert the attention from the real source of many of their problems—corrupt popes and tyrannical princes—by shifting the responsibility to imaginary demons in human form."

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-Ian Robertson (Scottish neuroscientist and clinical psychologist).​

 

Witch hunts, stoning women to death, and sacrificing virgins to the god of the volcano, merely advertises that your good-old-boy-club is open-for-business-as-usual, and are still used as an easy reactionary manner in which the wealthy and powerful are encouraged to stimulate their own economy. Note, these are done by the fastest growing religions in the world today, which have all integrated Aristotle's logic into their theology. Despite being a more logical theology, they use it to promote the use of hypocrisy, and half their congregations still claim the sun revolves around the earth. The simple fact is, every civilized culture has made the use of analog logic, the dictionary, and the self-evident truth taboo.