10/30/2023 0 Comments Heretic synonym![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Depending upon the source, anywhere from 600,000 to 9,000,000 people died at the hands of the Holy Inquisitors during their almost three-century reign of holy terror. Not all heretics were witches, but it generally amounted to the same thing in the end - death at the burning stake. Scientists were also heretics because they expounded upon things outside the scope of church doctrine, and because they refused to accept as “magic” those things for which they found natural explanation. Jews and others following religious beliefs outside Christian dogma were heretics. Not believing in witches or witchcraft was a brand of heresy, and anyone choosing to believe something outside that official doctrine was a heretic, and oft-times automatically, also a witch. Official church doctrine proclaimed the existence of witches.
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