The Burning Times! - NEVER AGAIN!!! - Wiccan - http://maxpages.com/velvettsky/The_Burning

During the Burning Times, an estimated nine million Witches were killed by their Christian brothers, sisters, and neighbors. Even now you can't publically announce the fact that you are a witch without painful and often brutal repercussions, depending on where you live.

The religion of Witchcraft dates back about 25,000 years, whre the God of Hunting and the Goddess of Fertility where living on this earth and of respect for the overwhelming power of Nature grew all over and the God and Goddess controlled the winds, the seas, the earth and the fire.

Soon the old ways of the coomon people came into conflict with the new ways and religions that started with rulers and upper classes-Christianity. When the Christians decided that their new ways weren't catching on quick enough, things got a lot rougher for those who were practicing witchcraft and the old religion, Christian leaders began asserting that Witches were devils and savages.

In the year 1233, Pop Gregory IX instituted the Roman something or other known as the Inquisition. He soon declared Witchcraft Religion of the Pagans as a heretical movement and that it was totally against Christianity. Witches had now become heretics and the hatered against Pagans spread like wildfire throughout Europe.

Witches......along with countless numbers of "inniocent" members of the Christian family who were not Witches were persicuted, brutally tortured, molested or raped, and then executed by sadistic bloody hatred acts. This all came from the autorities who taught that their God was a god of love and trust. A suspected witch was arrested and then hiddeously tourchered to confession. Subjects were subjected to thumb screws, the rack and the boot which broke the bones in their legs; they were diprived of sleep and food. At times hundreds of suspected Witches were killed in a day!

Witchcraft in England was made an illegal offense in the 1600's and there was a law decreeing capital punishment for Witches and Pagans alike. Years later the 13 colonies in Amerinca also made it a crime to be a Witch. By the late 1700's every witch was denounced to having to hide what they really were, and at night witches would
go under ground and perform an underground religion. There was an estimated 1 million witches put to death in Europe and more than 30 thousand in Massachusettes, in the name of Christianity.
Unfortunately when the persicutions ended in the 18 century and stereotype of Witches being devil worshipers remained forever and all the other people were and probably always will still be uninformed of the true nature of the craft.

NEVER AGAIN!!

amandamegson@yahoo.ca

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