One of my favourites part of this is the one that point catholic institutions as the one that prosecuted witches when it usually was a state of decentralized civil delirium.
It was usually the church itself that had to intervene and put a stop to things, especially when it came to issues related to Jewish persecution during the Middle Ages. Ironic when you think about it.
The (Catholic) Church is extraordinarily shady, but that point does not apply to it, but rather to the population losing its mind.
In fact, there are many jokes and serious discussions about the severity of the Inquisition, but at least in the Spanish case (and obviously after Torquemada), people WANTED the Inquisition to be the court that deliberated on crimes committed by them, because secular courts were genuinely more… biased and populist. At least in the Modern Age.
This does not justify religious persecution, it just recontextualizes some parts… I can see where you’re going with this. Inquisition = poo poo
whistleridge on
It wasn’t just witches. This was in Charleston in 1769:
I could be wrong I’ve heard that, even back then, neighboring towns were looking at Salem like “the fuck are they doing over there??”
Isolated groups of people becoming delusional and self-destructing have always been a thing and they sadly still are; they don’t make good case studies for how people “were back then”.
soothed-ape on
It is intuitive. Witch burning is seen as ridiculous and not founded on evidence. That is obviously a characteristic more associated with older periods of history ,generally. However, people do not view it as: “The accelerated communication infrastructure and Resultant culture that came with the renaissance allowed bad actors to propagandise to masses;and this let new misconceptions spread also”.
Diabolical_potplant on
I mean they definitely did burn heretics during the middle ages (fire cleanses the soul and stuff)
GustavoistSoldier on
They mostly happened during the early modern period
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One of my favourites part of this is the one that point catholic institutions as the one that prosecuted witches when it usually was a state of decentralized civil delirium.
It was usually the church itself that had to intervene and put a stop to things, especially when it came to issues related to Jewish persecution during the Middle Ages. Ironic when you think about it.
The (Catholic) Church is extraordinarily shady, but that point does not apply to it, but rather to the population losing its mind.
In fact, there are many jokes and serious discussions about the severity of the Inquisition, but at least in the Spanish case (and obviously after Torquemada), people WANTED the Inquisition to be the court that deliberated on crimes committed by them, because secular courts were genuinely more… biased and populist. At least in the Modern Age.
This does not justify religious persecution, it just recontextualizes some parts… I can see where you’re going with this. Inquisition = poo poo
It wasn’t just witches. This was in Charleston in 1769:
https://imgur.com/a/tkj6swn
I could be wrong I’ve heard that, even back then, neighboring towns were looking at Salem like “the fuck are they doing over there??”
Isolated groups of people becoming delusional and self-destructing have always been a thing and they sadly still are; they don’t make good case studies for how people “were back then”.
It is intuitive. Witch burning is seen as ridiculous and not founded on evidence. That is obviously a characteristic more associated with older periods of history ,generally. However, people do not view it as: “The accelerated communication infrastructure and Resultant culture that came with the renaissance allowed bad actors to propagandise to masses;and this let new misconceptions spread also”.
I mean they definitely did burn heretics during the middle ages (fire cleanses the soul and stuff)
They mostly happened during the early modern period