| ▲ | tptacek 10 hours ago |
| I guess, but the Catholics brought the death spectacles --- human sacrifice, essentially --- back in another form and kept them going until the 1600s. |
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| ▲ | gadders 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| But they also ended the human sacrifice in Latin America. |
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| ▲ | tptacek an hour ago | parent [-] | | While continuing it themselves in a different capacity. (I'm Catholic; I'm not dunking on Catholicism.) |
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| ▲ | red_trumpet 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Could you please elaborate what you are talking about? |
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| ▲ | closewith 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The Catholic Church, amongst others, regularly executed heretics, often by immolation. | | |
| ▲ | xaldir 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement.
The civil authorities then did what the law called for. |
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| ▲ | Loic 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Witch burning, with the capacity to have any woman for any reason marked as a witch. | | |
| ▲ | s1artibartfast 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Witch burning ran largely on public sentiment. It wasn't democratic per say, but relied on a community turning on its members, either out of paranoia or jealousy. More akin to a slow and formalized mob lynching than some top down affair. |
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