To: Wormwood; Appalled but Not Surprised
Or Alternative C, which is: God is a poet and speaks indirectly in Scripture, othewise we'd be burning witches in the public square. Which is the Truth-with-a-Capital-T, and one of a zillion reasons Catholicism beats fundamentalism with an ugly stick.Not helpful.
Also rather ironic, given that for the Protestant's Salem Witch Trials, there was a whole Inquisition started by Catholics.
To: The Grammarian
"Protestant's Salem Witch Trials"
Which only lasted a whole 6 months by the way, after which the entire Puritan community was quite ahamed of itself, having the deaths of innocents on their consciences for having been taken in by the hysterics of several young girls.
440 posted on
11/30/2005 1:01:37 PM PST by
mdmathis6
("It was not for nothing that you were named Ransom" from CS LEWIS' Perelandra!)
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