What do you think is the single most important thing to be learned from the Salem Witch Trials?

Question

Actually, from what I have read they were not burned at the stake as most people think (although they were often in England)... they were hanged, drowned, pressed under heavy weights, etc.

Answer 1

The Salem, Massachusetts Witch Trials were contrived, controlled and conducted by what we would now call religious conservatives.

What do we learn from the trials? That some otherwise normal people can be so enthused by religion that they will lie and believe the lies of others to satisfy the beliefs they hold that some persons are in league with and are controlled by Satin, who is mythical and only a part of their religion.

The execution of the unfortunate victims of those lies was so vicious and unspeakable that it beggars the mind to think a person claiming to be a follower of Christ would condone the act.

Some present day conservatives, I can see in my mind's eye, would delight in conducting those types of trials on their enemies who are anyone holding opposite beliefs.

Answer 2

When I hear about those witch trials it is just so hard to believe how so many people could get caught up in such cruelty. I think we need to think for ourselves. Many people get to where they are just followers. Which is ok I guess sometimes. But we need to think for ourselves and not think of any one person as all knowing or omnipotent. Just because they are a minister, priest, rabbi or whatever we can't just think they hold this position so no matter what they say they must be correct. All people are just human after all. Some people may be right on on some things but that doesn't mean they are right on on everything. Weigh what people say and decide for yourself if it has a ring of truth to it. If it doesn't we need to do something to try to change the wronge to make it right.

Answer 3

We can say that the Puritans that lived there were Sh it scared of each other and thier religion didn't offer much peace either. It was Confessions and repentence and NO SEX kinda crap going on there. So to keep controll of its people and not let another religion get started or a revolution the rulers made a false assumption that there were witches around. Mostly Rich people were acused of witches who owned alot of land and after thier deaths the local church officals confiscated thier lands. so i think that the witch trials were nathing more than a way to bag some property. if they didn't get it that way they got it this way!~

Answer 4

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Answer 5

That people were actually not afraid of Witches, but of "God's wrath." They accused others just to divert attention away from themselves as the church made accusations of the presence of witches causing wrongness in Salem. This event was definitely not a score for Christianity, as it caused people to hate each other.

Answer 6

The lesson is that witch hunts are powerful, destructive and are not exclusively of the past. The shadow that we fear, whatever it might be, can be used against us and by us to persecute others at any time. While the nature of the shadow changes, the group hysteria and smallness that motivates the attack is common across all ages.

Today one might expect a fear of foreigners to emerge as the new “shadow” in our age of terrorism.

Answer 7

The single most important thing to learn from the witch trials is the effects of mass hysteria and malicious gossip. Many innocent women (and men) were killed because of fear and ignorance... hmmm... sounds almost like we haven't learned that lesson yet now doesn't it??? We STILL are affected by mass hysteria and gossip and prejudice... and innocent men and women are still being ostracized, victimized, and even murdered because they aren't "like" us.

Answer 8

Not to judge a book by its cover or that book will most likly fail the tests for the trial

Answer 9

That a good spanking would have saved 19 people from a death sentence ! Seriously...what idiot thought it was a good idea to listen to hysterical little girls flopping around on the ground and screaming ? My mother called that a tantrum.....and we got punished for it !

Answer 10

The single most important thing to be learned is that Religion is dangerous.