Posted on 03/02/2023 11:49:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
Last time I laid out the reasons why cartoonist Scott Adams is being persecuted with all the zeal of a 17th century witch hunt, or a blasphemy trial in some sharia-run desert sheikdom. Because we’re in fact dealing here with a new and false religion, which Adams indeed blasphemed. He mocked the Priests of Baal and relieved himself on their idols.
Adams showed haughty, reckless contempt for the new gospel of the Antichrist, the Woke post-Christian cargo cults that fetishize stolen organs hacked out of the body of Christian moral teaching. But the South Seas Islanders never conducted witch trials.
I know it’s my job as a conservative to debunk ugly myths that defame our Western past. But in fact, there’s nothing remotely defensible about most of the witch trials of which we have good records — and certainly not of the death penalty applied to often innocent people. These institutions earned an ugly reputation even among believers in their day.
She Turned Me into a Newt
You don’t have to be an Enlightenment agnostic to be disgusted at trials that depended on wildly fantastical “confessions” of people flying through the air via Satan’s power, accounts entirely extracted under torture. With that in mind, I’d like to share this hilarious clip from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail: [video at link]
Most historical witch trials were no fairer than this one. And just to be ecumenical, they were every bit as common in Protestant countries as Catholic ones. The King James of the “King James Bible” was a fanatical witch-hunter, launching vicious persecutions through England and Scotland for decades. Nobody comes out of these accounts smelling like a rose, except for the clergy who tried (sometimes) to call the mania to a halt. Some of them got persecuted themselves for their trouble.
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Witch craft and show trials are NOT gone!
To include forcing high school students to read “The Crucible.” My $.02.
Did he steal the ring too? Spice virgins into a volcano? Did he pull the sword from the stone and slay dragons?
Is this an article, or is it a poem?
This is ridiculous. The witch hunts ended. What this is is someone who’s right to free speech has been infringed. The same thing our rights to be armed have been infringed.
This wax-poetic does nothing but muddy waters. Discard it.
Please give me your name, address, phone number and social media ID’s so I can cancel you for no reason. Let all of us see how you like it.
I’m just saying the article itself is garbage.
This isn’t about a guy refusing to worship baal.
Let’s get serious and identify the problem instead of this pure allegory non sense.
Thanks for the defensive posture. It would appear you’re not in the position to argue, debate or welcome thoughts that don’t agree with your position.
Looks kinda familiar, doesn’t it?
Woo-Hoo! Preach it, brother!
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