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To: Grainne who wrote (13876)	11/25/1997 11:48:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Yep. It all reinforces the point that witch-hunting was a 300 year long evil interlude that overturned the previously established position of the church, which held that sorcery was nothing but superstition. (see Canon Episcopi). Witchhunting never occurred in the Eastern Church, but only in the Roman west. It was, as Lord Acton wrote, an affair of the papacy. Much as you try to claim that witch burning is typical of Christianity's hatred of women, the facts just don't stretch that far. I do wonder why you never mention the even larger and equally brutal persecution of Protestants and heretics, which is what witchhunting grew out of.