Autodidact: self-taught

Aug
15
2011

Giving Power to Your Enemies

by V. L. Craven

By paying so much attention to the devil and by treating witchcraft as the most heinous of crimes, the theologians and the inquisitors actually spread the beliefs and fostered the practices which they were trying so hard to repress. By the beginning of the eighteenth century witchcraft had ceased to be a serious social problem. It dies out, among other reasons, because almost nobody now bothered to repress it. For the less it was persecuted, the less it was propagandized. — The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

Leave a Reply

Powered by WordPress