Aielyn said:
Pro tip: Not everything is about America. Look into the witch-hunts of the middle ages, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Inquisition. |
The focus of the Inquisition was on heretics primarily, not the hunting of witches. And the top worst trademark of the Inquisition was torture, not burnings.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn2.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_hunts_in_Early_Modern_Europe
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm
http://www.salon.com/2005/02/01/witch_craze/
A real pro tip is to not buy into stereotypical and lazy thinking based on erroneous cliches. And for people to not confused what had happened in the past with the state of things currently. It is really pushing it to say one of the trademarks today of the Catholic Church is the burning of witches. It would be, at worst, akin to saying that being drawn to Mormonism today means you have a thing for polygamy.
