Recent content by MaxP

I'm pretty certain it was the way I told it. I could be wrong, but I remember that one of the things that made Salem so remarkable even today is the fact it was very well documented in all aspects, and I've only ever heard it the way I said. But the story you posted in the link seems pretty much...

Ummmm.... actually, the girls started "acting strangely," and then blamed it on witchcraft. They drew attention to themselves. They proceeded to point out who it was "bewitching" them.

It also does not mention each heresy by name, either. Why do you obstinatly refuse to accept a plain fact? Witchcraft is not especially heinous in the Catholic faith.

Yeah, it didn't work out too well. Kinda turned in on itself. Turns out feudal lords CAN'T be trusted to do what's right in positions of power. Huh.

After the Crusades, to say the least. Besides, the idea of the Crusades was not to kick Muslims out of their ancestral homes, but to win back land lost by Western lords in the great Muslim conquests. I however can show the bible explicitly says to kill witches (and doesn't explain how to...

841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last...

It seems to me you are making many assumptions about the people of cultures you are not intimately familiar with, as well as the inner workings of minds that are not your own.

Theists recognize man is destructive and spiteful beast. Hell, some even go so far as to say man is too destructive and sinful to even have a chance of redeeming himself.

That's man throughout time.

Actually, the Catechism specifically states the relationship between the good in other religions. A concept not so modern, but still not shared by all Christians.

Written in his laws for the Israeli nation. The law was written to keep the Israelites, God's chosen people, free of heretics and those who worshiped the devil. You can't be a member of the Jewish nation and a witch. It is no longer binding to Christians.

It's not possible to be a capitalist who holds money above all else, but is possible to be a capitalist.

Evil is not so powerful God isn't able to disintegrate it entirely? On the contrary, God is entirely able. But he allows it to exist, and always exist, as a matter of choice. What kind of world would it be if we have no choice in our destiny?

I don't think it does either, but one has to realize that such vehicles are more of an excuse(even though they may be, at times, promoted by the authorities from whence the vehicles came). The belief in witches is one of many examples of people trying to discover a scapegoat for bad fortune...

I doubt many of the 14 year olds whose parents would allow them to take this art class would be of the type who thought the body in and of itself is immoral. So it really prevents nothing. According to many Christian denominations, the immorality, as Preachers Wife said, lies in the way one...