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	The Burning Times

wiccantexan

3-27-2008 7:39 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/391428da-20bd-45ea-9699-66bc857d6912/06C9F2F3-C6AC-446D-BF85-B93ED74CA9B6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wicca.timerift.net/burning.shtml" href="http://wicca.timerift.net/burning.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">wicca.timerift.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wicca.timerift.net/burning.shtml"><FONT size="2">or the More Persecuted than Thou Syndrome</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wicca.timerift.net/burning.shtml">The Burning Times 
        is a term referring to the witch persecutions in Europe during the late 
        medieval and renaissance periods. According to <A target="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_times">Wikipedia</A>, 
        it was first coined by feminist Mary Daly in 1978, who depicted the witch-hunts 
        as a persecution against women. However, the "burning times," 
        without captitalization, does, in fact, appear in Gardner's <I>Witchcraft 
        Today</I>, which predates Daly by about 20 years. Whatever the origin, 
        Wiccans and some other Pagans have certainly adopted the term, and today 
        the phrase generally refers to the theory that Christian witch-hunters 
        were, in fact, attempting to root out practitioners of older pagan religions.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wicca.timerift.net/burning.shtml">Not only is the myth 
        of the Burning Times false, it's disrespectful to the real victims of 
        the witch-persecutions who were, at first, heretics and then were generally 
        Christians unfortunate enough to be swept up in a hysteria that swept 
        half a continent.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/06C9F2F3-C6AC-446D-BF85-B93ED74CA9B6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>