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Because my opinion is not the same as yours, does not make either one of us stupid or gullible. I just happen to believe the Bible when it says that witchcraft of any sort, in any form, is wrong. Does that make me a dupe of frauds? I don't think so.

It makes you a dupe, gullible beyond words, and utterly ill informed about what witchcraft is , IF what your original reply is what you really did . But hey, be my guest, believe whatever you care to. Just don't expect that everyone will think that you have a shred of knowledge about what you are talking about.

Nobody, ever accused of witchcraft , could fly, work spells, or went to a public ( that PRIVATE, in England ) , English boarding school that was devoted to teaching " magic." That's just for starters. Jesus turned water int wine, and we call that a miracle. Moses turned a staff into a serpent. So did Pharoh's court magician . This is REALLY an ancient magic trick, that is STILL done today , and I've seen it not only done, but explained !

Now, outside of reading the Bible, tell me , and the sources, that you know about witches. I'll try to help you out, as much as I can. : - )

Just a fial question : DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WORSHIPS THE DEVIL ?

Neither do I!! Hang in there, this crowd can get nasty at times.

Because my opinion is not the same as yours, does not make either one of us stupid or gullible.

It does not necessarily make you stupid or gullible; but it's certainly possible that you're stupid or gullible. If someone put forth a sincere, passionate defense of the "flat earth" theory, it would not automatically mean that person was stupid or gullible, but the rest of us would certainly not rule out that conclusion.

I think people are more making fun of you than attacking you. If you are going to voice the views that you do, you've got to be prepared for a little derision. As much as Free Republic tries to avoid (and delete) profanity-laced ad hominem attacks, that does not mean it's safe for the thin-skinned.

The reference to the King James Version of the Bible, and to those who apparently believe that St. Paul (and the author of Duteronomy) wrote in Elizabethan English, has to do with the Bible's condemnation of 'witchcraft'. There is no such word in anchient Hebrew, or in Koinic Greek. The words and phrases which the Committee that translated the Bible for King James I, in the first decade of the 17th Century rendered as 'witch' and 'witchcraft' can be translated alternately as 'poisoners', 'woman with a familiar spirit' (what we would call a medium or channeler today), 'wise man', and so on. The blanket condemnation of 'witchcraft' was as much an artifact of the language used in translation as it was a condemnation of a coherent set of beliefs and practices.