The victims of the 1692 witch hunt were innocent. However, if the witch hunters of that time were to return to Salem today, they would find a happy hunting ground. When I visited Salem, a tour guide told me that its population has more self-proclaimed witches per capita than any other town in America.
“However, if the witch hunters of that time were to return to Salem today, they would find a happy hunting ground.”
No doubt they would. I know it sounds like a badly written TV episode, but can you imagine the clash of world views a 17th century witch hunter would have if they were to to magically transported to our current day?
They would probably run in horror from the rest of us as well. Apart from the cheap comic scenes of someone with a funny accent seeing electronics and automobiles, they would soon learn that almost no one believes the same things that almost everyone they knew took for granted. I don’t imagine any that even 1% of our current day American citizens would be acceptable to those individuals.
No doubt, but for every witch dressed like one, there are vastly more incognito, from peons to politicians to pulpiteers.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23)