Witches

[brionon]

Since apologising seems to be the order of the day,will the christians apologise for burning all those Old Women
as Witches,please?

[naomi24]

Hello Brionon ...... And will any of today's witches apologise for their ancestors upsetting the Christians all those years ago? Caused them a lot of problems, they did.

[brionon]

No, love WE won't be apologising !

[naomi24]

Are you a witch, brionon?

[brionon]

Well, I don't like to boast, you know . Let's just say I'm more Wizard than Wizard is. Put another way. Yes.

[Theland]

True Christians never burned so called, "witches."
People of, "religion," did. There is a difference.

[luna-tic]

"I'll get you my pretty, what a world ! What a world !"

[naomi24]

Theland, All Christians think they're true Christians - even those in bygone days who burnt young and old, men and women, as witches.

Brionon, will you tell us something about your faith please?

[brionon]

Naomi, there's no Faith in it. It's respect and love for our Mother Earth, which, if you think about it, is all we've got.

[brionon]

Theland's reply is a well known ploy in Filosofy. It's called 'The No True Scotsman' argument. It goes something like this:-
1st. Man-''I see that the man who raped that girl is a Scot.''
2nd. Man- ''No he's no Scot.'
1st. man-''How do you know?''
2nd. Man-''No true Scot would Rape.''
Easy innit ?

[naomi24]

Brionon, my friend is a witch - she tells me she's a 'white witch' - and she says the same as you. She does believe that spells can work though. Do you?

[brionon]

I wish I could discuss this with you out of the Public eye. I feel that spells work on the person who sets them. Meditation and 'One-ness' are my goals.

[naomi24]

The problem in understanding belief is that people perceive things in different ways. For example, you and my friend tell people you are witches, but some, without further investigation, (or in some cases with it!!), would view that as being into the occult and devil-worship, and nothing to do with experiencing a oneness with the earth and with nature. Does your quest extend to seeking a oneness with the whole universe, or is it limited to the earth?

[WaldoMcFroog]

I love the way that because he gets an opportunity to slag off his despised Catholics, Theland gleefully tells us that it wasn't 'Christians' who did this, but 'people of religion', conveniently forgetting that he is a Bible literalist* who believes the Bible is inerrant, and therefore - unless he is some sort of hypocrite who picks and chooses which of God's laws he needs to obey - should be following the very clear advice in Exodus 22:18, which many will know is 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".

* unless the story doesn't stack up when taken literally, in which case he's down with looking for metaphor, analogy and poetic licence.

[Theland]

Waldo - correction - I do not despise catholics.
For somebody who likes to pay so much attention to detail, I am puzzled how you have overlooked the minor detail of the major difference between individual Roman Catholics, and that grand institution in Rome, the Roman Catholic church?
I think you are just trying to stir things up a bit.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Very well, you despise the Catholic church, not Catholics.

Excellent avoidance of the salient point there. Well done.

[Theland]

Thanks Waldo - The laws were effected whilst Israel was in the process of being built up as a nation. I presume that keeping the nation pure in its infancy was more important than creating a class of nomadic social workers to deal with occasional outbreaks of witchcraft.

[WaldoMcFroog]

So, you're saying the law on killing witches was repealed?

Do you have the chapter and verse where that occurs, please?

[Theland]

No

and

No

Why? I can't say, I don't know.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Okay, so you're saying that it is correct to kill witches still. Cool.

Why don't you support the Catholics in fulfilling God's laws then?

[chakka35]

Brave tries,WaldoMcfroog, but you must surely have noticed by now that attempting a rational debate with Theland is like trying to nail jelly to the ceiling.