Why did the Salem witch trials happen? Isn't the concept

>>1569462
Witches were people generally believed to have made a deal with the Devil and actively worship him. I believe that this description of people working with nefarious forces within a religion to bring harm to a society is found everywhere.

>>1569462
During the early Medieval period it was, but by the Renaissance the Church came to see witch-hunts as an acceptable way of purging heretics, and the idea persisted until the Enlightenment.

>m-muh s-sola scripture
>fucking cathoshit pagans
>burning witches is fine

lmao protestants

>>1569462
>heretical pagan idea
Did you forget that the people involved were literally heretics themselves?

The In Our Time on the Salem trials was pretty interesting and would give answers to your first question.

Protestants

>>1569551
Why is it Catholics are incapable of serious discussion?

>>1569697

>>1569703

See, there was this guy named Martin Luther...