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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian,net.flame
Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of)
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Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 17:27:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 17:27:26 1985
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>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
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