Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian,net.flame Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of) Message-ID: <1434@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 17:27:26 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1434 Posted: Sat Mar 2 17:27:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 19:14:53 EST References:Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Distribution: na Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 28 Summary: >Christians never gave up witch burning. They never did it in the first >place. If you will take the time to do some research into the Salem witch >burnings, you will learn that the actual witches got off scot free. It was >innocent, law abiding, citizens (women) who were victims of the mob >hysteria. Salem isn't the only place in the world to harbour Christians, you know. Thousands of people were burned as witches throughout the Christian world. I have a certificate (authentic) that says I am not a witch, issued in Oudewater (Netherlands). Why do they issue such certificates? Because one of the tests of a witch was that s/he weighed less than a formula based on height dictated, and in many places the public weighmaster could be bribed to show that an unwanted person was as light as a feather on the scales. At Oudewater, the weighmaster was shown to be incorruptible and the Emperor gave a permanent certification for the Oudewater scales. Anyone shown there to be not a witch was free of suspicion for life. Your definition of Christian conforms to mine (essentially to live as Jesus proclaimed), but it sure lets out most of the people who have historically believed themselves to be Christian, and moral and upright and dutybound to ensure that whatever happened to some poor unfortunate body, the soul would go to heaven. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt