| Council Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The great, dead heart of suburbia Gender:  Posts: 1,537 Country:  Level up: 3%, 194 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer  Considering that not one person killed during those trials were witches...
Sorry Jeff. You many believe the hype of those times but I don't. And I think that anyone within the Pagan communities that try the 'Look we're prosecuted, all you have to do is look at the Salem trials' need a good swift kick in the bumm.
The Salem Witch Trials were started by girls trying to get attention. Then it mushroomed and anyone with a vindetta against another accussed that person of being a witch. Nothing but innocents were accused in those trials and I for one am thankful that their good names were cleared. | Actually, pagans are still opressed, but the focus wasn't on them in Salem.
Let's get this cleared up: Approximately 75-85% of the country is christian. Our leaders are predominantly christian. Our strongest social commentators are predominantly christian. In fact, if you're not christian, that's a detriment were you to ever run for office. Proclaim yourself an atheist and you can kiss Congress goodbye. Christians are in power. You are not opressed.
When I meant the first Europeans in America, I was thinking of the Puritans, the ones who make Jerry Falwell look like a secular humanist. You're also forgetting all those religious awakenings that reinforced religion and kept it from fading away. "Every time I hear the phrase 'Christian nation' I run to my car and blast a Slayer album at full volume." - Me
Last edited by Antithesis; 02-22-2007 at 05:24 PM.
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