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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
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Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of)
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 19:01:47 EST
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> >     Uhhh...the nine million or so European women who died in the
> >Roman Catholic Inquisition were killed because they were
> >suspected witches.  The Roman Catholics of the 1100s to the
> >1500s were the only Christian church in Europe.  When the
> >Protestant movement arose in Germany and spread across the
> >Continent and to Britain, it was the Calvinists (Presbyterians)
> >of Scotland, also Christians, who devised some of the most
> >bloody and brutal tortures and murders of suspected witches.
> >The Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches, was authored by
> >Jesuit priests.
> 
> 
> Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe

	_M_a_l_l_e_u_s _M_a_l_e_f_i_c_a_r_u_m was written by Kramer & Sprenger, who,
if memory serves me, were Dominicans, not Jesuits.  Of course,
after the Reformation, the Protestants were quite zealous in
"purging" their ranks of heretics, unbelievers, witches, and anyone
whom they didn't care for.
	King James I of England (the one right after Queen Elizabeth
I), the one of the KJV of the Bible, was a notorious witch-hunter,
and many were the people executed on his command.
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