>>>in the Burning Times (1450-1700 > roughly) the church burned and hanged
hundreds of thousands > of people, mostly women witches or alleged witches.
Don't be silly The largest single witchcraft pursecutions killed a few
hundred, not tens of thousands. Add them all up you are going to get
something from several hundred to a few thousand See the book "witches and
neighbors" for a realistic survey of witchcraft persecutions You are
projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when it was unknown. <<
According to Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" the death toll is
closer to Harmon than Donald.I think I saw that somewhere else as well.If
Donald scoffs it's probably right.See...
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/jamesd.html
For projecting modern totalitarianism back to an era when it was unknown.See
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2374/blood.html
It takes an expert ex-trot loony for this.
