>middle age >Witchcraft is considered superstition and

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Why does Aquinas, the greatest Catholic theologian whom is still cited to dismiss Atheists, devote so much of his writing to witchcraft if it is mere superstition?

Because most people belong to the devil, so they had the idea that they would accuse the true people of God of witchcraft since they can do actual miracles as opposed to the faggots you see daily.

Loss of church power due to the protestant reform.
This is why protestants countries burned more witches than catholics countries

because life is a story and people don't like it when you can affect theirs

Protestantism.

But the Renaissance was just an incredibly shit period all around. It's what happens when you leave Germans and Italians in charge of a civilisation.