Witch hunts and the church
Title: Witch hunts and the church
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1303 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Witch hunts and the church
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 1303 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
I am a witch, now please kill me!
Many innocent women happily welcomed death by confessing to witchcraft in order to end their excruciating torture during the witch hunt craze between 1450 and 1750. Since many records were lost, destroyed or never kept, the best estimation of the total deaths is several million (4). The main cause of the witch hunts was the Church inflicting fear upon the common and educated man by lying to them about what
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and their ability to care for one another. What the Church did to women, witches or not, sickens me as it should sicken every conscious living soul. They used their power and also their fear of losing that power to execute millions of innocent women. Not only did they execute them but they tortured them in unthinkable ways. The Church and men alike should be forever sorry for their part in the witch hunting craze.