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Post by Maarten on Jan 12, 2010 10:12:56 GMT -5
during the bronze age they believed in witches and burned them at the stakefor being heathens. Burning witches during the bronze age?
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Post by The Worm on Jan 12, 2010 14:56:44 GMT -5
Things like witch burnings and the crusades are irrelevant to both christianity and the quote. I also don't really see what technology has to do with it either (not assuming it doesn't, I just don't see it).
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Post by Maarten on Jan 12, 2010 15:23:38 GMT -5
Burning witches sure don't have anything to do with Christianity if it happened in the Bronze Age.
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Post by runny on Jan 12, 2010 16:41:31 GMT -5
Burning witches sure don't have anything to do with Christianity if it happened in the Bronze Age. Well it Did.
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Post by The Worm on Jan 12, 2010 17:46:06 GMT -5
Well besides that, they obviously aren't values endorsed by christian doctrine.
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Post by notavailable on Jan 12, 2010 22:31:44 GMT -5
Just irrational actions fueled by superstition and fear rather than bible-based belief, carried out by christians in an almost entirely christian culture.
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Post by Radiant Magnificence Alastair on Jan 12, 2010 23:51:29 GMT -5
Western society is basically christian culture.
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Post by notavailable on Jan 13, 2010 3:20:31 GMT -5
Their histories are indeed quite entangled with each other.
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Post by Maarten on Jan 13, 2010 10:45:39 GMT -5
Well, in the Middle Ages, when the persecution of witches happened, people couldn't read anyway. There were period's where any translation into a living language was banned, so they only had Latin bibles, which even less people could read. If I remember correctly there were even times where common people wern't allowed to own bibles at all. People just listened to whatever the priests said in those days without thinking for themselves, and the priests told them to go persecute witches.
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Post by Brent on Jan 13, 2010 19:02:57 GMT -5
some things never change.
BTW
I'm surprised nobody has asked yet, but the quote comes from chief Wiccan Ryan Clark
he's a tool
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Post by Josh on Jan 13, 2010 23:22:23 GMT -5
He's a tool of lolz.
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Post by The Worm on Jan 14, 2010 2:05:53 GMT -5
some things never change. Which people are you referring to and who are they listening to Brent?
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Post by Jeremy on Jan 14, 2010 2:53:16 GMT -5
"Ryan Clark" is actually black:
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Post by Brent on Jan 14, 2010 3:14:18 GMT -5
some things never change. Which people are you referring to and who are they listening to Brent? Anyone who follows a religion, religious leaders
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Post by Paul on Jan 14, 2010 3:33:57 GMT -5
Biggest facepalm ever
Because "thinking for yourself" is inherently better than following leaders
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