Religion in History And in Modern Life Together With An Essay On the Church And
Religion in History And in Modern Life Together With An Essay On the Church And
A M Andrew Martin Fairbairn
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" The answer is significant alike of the new dignity and worth of man, and of the new and noble tenderness in the character of his God. But you may say, " See how many of the laws are imperfect and severe, nay, even cruel. Take, for example, the law against witchcraft. ' Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. ' Had not that law to do with the burnings for witchcraft in the sixteenth, seven- teenth, and eighteenth centuries ? And how can you defend the religion against the charge of burning peop...le for an impossible crime ? " Now there are here two questions, one as to the law, and another as to its interpretation or application in later history. " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, " must be looked at through the eyes of that time, in the spirit of a historical student, asking the meaning of a religion, and what witchcraft signified to it. It did not mean an old woman addicted to black arts, who burnt before the fire the image of a man who was thought to decay as the image melted. It meant the presence and power of the religions lying around.
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