Well, that's the point isn't it. There are no witches. However, that didn't/doesn't stop "The Religious" from accusing normal, everyday people of being witches. How sad that you cannot understand that.
Religious persecution and prosecution has nothing to do with "jury of peers". Jury of peers is not a religious concept; it is a secular concept.
It was the church leaders who persecuted and prosecuted "witches".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Würzburg_witch_trial (emphasis mine)
Würzburg witch trial
The Würzburg witch trial, which took place in Germany in 1626–1631, is one of the biggest mass-trials and mass-executions seen in Europe during the Thirty Years War; 157 men, women and children in the city of Würzburg are confirmed to have been burned at the stake, mostly after first being beheaded; 219 are estimated to have been executed in the city proper, and an estimated 900 were killed in the entire Prince-Bishopric.
The first persecutions in Würzburg started with the consent of Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, Prince bishop of Würzburg,
Many of the witch-trials of the 1620s multiplied with the Catholic reconquest. In some areas the lord or bishop was the instigator, in others the Jesuits.
To conclude this wretched matter, there are children of three and four years, to the number of three hundred, who are said to have had intercourse with the Devil.
Würzburg witch trial
The Würzburg witch trial, which took place in Germany in 1626–1631, is one of the biggest mass-trials and mass-executions seen in Europe during the Thirty Years War; 157 men, women and children in the city of Würzburg are confirmed to have been burned at the stake, mostly after first being beheaded; 219 are estimated to have been executed in the city proper, and an estimated 900 were killed in the entire Prince-Bishopric.
The first persecutions in Würzburg started with the consent of Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, Prince bishop of Würzburg,
Many of the witch-trials of the 1620s multiplied with the Catholic reconquest. In some areas the lord or bishop was the instigator, in others the Jesuits.
To conclude this wretched matter, there are children of three and four years, to the number of three hundred, who are said to have had intercourse with the Devil.
Some Baptists would disagree with you:
http://www.bpnews.net/16979/wicca-a-word-of-warning-to-parents-of-teens
In understanding Wicca, parents should be aware that witchcraft is not harmless fun, but an explicitly anti-Christian worldview and a collection of fundamentally unbiblical practices. Feminism. Feminists and disaffected women have been drawn to witchcraft throughout history. Sexual liberation. No-rules sexuality is a hallmark of Wicca; anything that doesn't harm anyone and is consensual is okay. Wren Walker, one prominent Wiccan, proclaims: "We have no rules which prohibit homosexuality, nudity or pre-marital sex.
I know you do. That's why I quoted it for you. To remind you.
Exodus 22:18, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,”
Leviticus 20:27, “A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death,”
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