Hadn't meant to give off an anti-Christian vibe or offend, it was more that when Christians were trying to establish their religion in Britain and other countries they had to oppress the pagan cultures in order to gain power. It wasn't dumb, it was very very smart, actually, as it worked like a charm.MorphingDragon said:Correction, dumb people went "Women are sinful and not as intelligent as men, if that woman has power to make sick people better it must be magic from the devil. AND ONCE SHE GAINS YOUR TRUST SHE WILL USE IT TO HURT YOU TOO."lisadagz said:Female 16-21
Witch used to merely mean 'wise woman' and was used to refer to a woman who had knowledge of herbs and nature. People would go to her for medicines and other helpful things.
Then Christians came along and went "Women are sinful and not as intelligent as men, if that woman has power to make sick people better it must be magic from the devil. AND ONCE SHE GAINS YOUR TRUST SHE WILL USE IT TO HURT YOU TOO."
And then you know the rest.
All the gifts to Jesus have medicinal uses, and of what we know of middle-eastern culture at the time, was given for that reason from the Wise Men.
Psch thats OK.lisadagz said:Hadn't meant to give off an anti-Christian vibe or offend, it was more that when Christians were trying to establish their religion in Britain and other countries they had to oppress the pagan cultures in order to gain power. It wasn't dumb, it was very very smart, actually, as it worked like a charm.MorphingDragon said:Correction, dumb people went "Women are sinful and not as intelligent as men, if that woman has power to make sick people better it must be magic from the devil. AND ONCE SHE GAINS YOUR TRUST SHE WILL USE IT TO HURT YOU TOO."lisadagz said:Female 16-21
Witch used to merely mean 'wise woman' and was used to refer to a woman who had knowledge of herbs and nature. People would go to her for medicines and other helpful things.
Then Christians came along and went "Women are sinful and not as intelligent as men, if that woman has power to make sick people better it must be magic from the devil. AND ONCE SHE GAINS YOUR TRUST SHE WILL USE IT TO HURT YOU TOO."
And then you know the rest.
All the gifts to Jesus have medicinal uses, and of what we know of middle-eastern culture at the time, was given for that reason from the Wise Men.
I'm aware. The essay isn't nearly important enough for me to bother putting together an online survey and begging/bribing/threatening enough people to click the link and fill it in. This way, I get over a hundred responses (enough to draw some weak conclusions about the age/gender group most captured) with no pain at all except for typing up the results.Noelveiga said:Eh... you *are* aware that letting other people see each other's responses also introduces bias to your sample, right?
It's just that I've seen a few of these "I need a poll for school" threads and people don't seem to notice that.
This^^^ I love Terry Pratchett. The plural of 'witch' isn't 'witches' it's 'argument'.RaffB said:"Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's a basic unwritten rule of witchcraft which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say'. The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it" (Witches Abroad).
As quoted from our lord, Terry of Pratchett..