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To: WackyKat; Cap'n Crunch
Ummm -- witch burnings?? Weren't those the Puritans?
279 posted on 01/01/2004 11:41:14 AM PST by cebadams (much better than ezra)
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To: cebadams
Ummm -- witch burnings?? Weren't those the Puritans

No. the American Puritans did not burn anyone-the Salem executions were by hanging and crushing with stones in one case.

All of which pales in comparison to the centuries of executions and extra-judicial killings of tens of thousands of people for "heresy" by the Catholic church in Europe.

But don't get the mistaken idea I'm defending Protestant outrages against human freedom , I'm not

282 posted on 01/01/2004 11:46:10 AM PST by WackyKat
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