Path: Supernews!supernews.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.2.96.62!news.rain.net!news.teleport.com!ip-pdx11-21 From: duo@teleport.com (Tom Schuler) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Spell Needed Date: Thu, 29 May 97 20:08:03 GMT Organization: Teleport Internet Services: Public Access User Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5ml2de$e0r$1@nadine.teleport.com> References: <33861797.3705@ainet.com> <33874F4C.7454@REMOVETHIS.bellsouth.net> <33873015.1A9B@geocities.com> <5mflu6$pmi@kudo20.kudonet.com> <338BA506.87284C82@geocities.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-pdx11-21.teleport.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Xref: Supernews alt.magick:103132 In article <338BA506.87284C82@geocities.com>, Grovekeeper wrote: >So you think that just becayse people have been doing something >negativefor years that it makes it right?? The Christians burned people >who used magick at the stake for centuries. Perhaps we should continue that?? >People who harm other should be the first to go. Fascinating example of becoming what you hate. Kill all violent people! So, for centuries Christians burned magicians at the stake? An interesting take on history! The Inquisition burned heretics, often declaring them to be "witches". A heretic is someone who declares a religous tenet in contradiction to the one you believe. It is not someone who uses magick. There were all sorts of accusations made about these people in order to convince the general population that these people had to be killed. Most of those accusations were entirely fabricated. Many of those burned had done nothing more than be in the wrong place at the wrong time.