[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Helloween Is Months Away: How about an LBC Witch/Wiccan Hunt.

Brother James, that sure sounds like a suicide to me. The witch, realizing she had committed her entire life to a falsehood and offending God, ended it all so she could begin her eternity of torture sooner.

[Benedict A. Davis]

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Brother James,
As you know I am visiting California right now but if there is anything I can do to help please let me know.

[BelieverInGod]

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Why are Homicide detectives from Des Moines in Freehold asking questions...... They just left my house. Some one told them of my large rock collection. This is not funny, I called my Joo lawyer. They want an alibi.

That doesn't make sense, no True Christian(TM) would draw a pentagram or any other satanic symbol on the earth. I'll bet that it was her own coven punishing her for some misdeed. Perhaps they found a KJV Bible tucked away in her night stand.

[Brother Snapper Grogan]

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That doesn't make sense, no True Christian™ would draw a pentagram or any other satanic symbol on the earth. I'll bet that it was her own coven punishing her for some misdeed. Perhaps they found a KJV Bible tucked away in her night stand.

I agree - that sounds like conclusive evidence to me. I'm with Rev. Rodimer - it would be trivial for a witch to call down a rain of stones upon her own head. Perhaps, realising her sins and their inevitable consequences, she decided to call down God's judgement upon her own head in the hope that He may show her some mercy. I trust she's now enjoying her hot sulfur bath.

Relax, Brother James. That's surely the only conclusion that the detectives can come to.

[puddle bubbles]

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I have a bad habit of studying sinful cultures and religions of the past and I can add to the witch burning.

Witches were given two general punishment in old America. The most common was burning because it was believed that if the witch was not a true witch, God would not allow her to burn.

The other option could be more enivironmental friendly. An older method of witch purifying was to bind the witch's hands and feet and tie her to a large rock. She would then be taken to a body of water and thrown in. Again, if she's not a true witch, God will not allow her to drown and will release the bindings.

[Benedict A. Davis]

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I have a bad habit of studying sinful cultures and religions of the past and I can add to the witch burning.

Witches were given two general punishment in old America. The most common was burning because it was believed that if the witch was not a true witch, God would not allow her to burn.

The other option could be more enivironmental friendly. An older method of witch purifying was to bind the witch's hands and feet and tie her to a large rock. She would then be taken to a body of water and thrown in. Again, if she's not a true witch, God will not allow her to drown and will release the bindings.

Puddles, Telling lies is a sin! If you would even had done any reading on witchcraft you would know that in the cases concerning witches you were considered saved and in Gods good graces if you were to drown during your ''trial by water''.

Ordeal by water was later associated with the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, although in this scenario the outcome was reversed from the examples above: an accused who sank (and usually drowned) was considered innocent, while floating indicated witchcraft. Demonologists developed inventive new theories about how it worked. Some argued that witches floated because they had renounced baptism when entering the Devil's service.

[BelieverInGod]

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Puddles, Telling lies is a sin! If you would even had done any reading on witchcraft you would know that in the cases concerning witches you were considered saved and in Gods good graces if you were to drown during your ''trial by water''.

Agreed. Also no witches were burned in America, most were hung. The burnings were more a European thing.
Excuse the liebral link

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn2.htm

1690's: Nearly 25 people died during the witch craze in Salem, MA: one was pressed to death with weights because he wouldn't enter a plea; some died in prison, the rest were hanged. 5 There were other trials and executions throughout New England.

[Benedict A. Davis]

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Agreed. Also no witches were burned in America, most were hung. The burnings were more a European thing.
Excuse the liebral link
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn2.htm

Sister did you know that bills were presented to the estates of the witches in Scotland for their burnings. Here is a bill that the city had to pay and a breakdown of the charges.http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter20.htm

The mode of executing witches was singularly revolting. The victims were led to the stake amidst the hootings of an exasperated rabble. '1'lle clergy, who attended officially, then thanked heaven for the immolation of the wretched beings, whom they believed had, by rendering fealty to the devil, renounced every claim to human sympathy. And the executioner handled roughly those whom by his spiritual teachers he was assured were destined to the pit. Raised aloft over a heap of wood and coal, the supposed sorcerer was bound to a stake, surrounded with faggots, while the contents of one or more tar barrels were strewn upon the holocaust. The executioner now tightened a rope about his victim's neck, and, applying fire to the heap, there was in the course of an hour to be found only a heap of ashes.
In rural parishes the resident landowners, and in burghs the Town Councils, co-operated with Kirk-sessions in defraying the cost of witch-burning. When in 1636 a man and woman were burned at Kirkcaldy on the charge of sorcery, the cost of execution was defrayed by the Kirksession and Town Council in accordance with the following statement:--

In the accounts of the burgh treasurer of Dumfries, under the 27th May 1657, the cost of the execution of two women charged with witchcraft embraces the following items:—
"For 38 loads of peitts to burn the two women, £3, 12s. Given to `William Edgar for ane tar barrell, 12s.; for ane herring barrell, 14s. Given to John Shotrick for carrying the twa barrells to the pledge, 6s. Given to the four officers that day that the witches wes brunt at the provost and bayillis command, 24s. Given to Thomas Anderson for the two stoupes and two steaves, 30s."

[BelieverInGod]

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Sister did you know that bills were presented to the estates of the witches in Scotland for their burnings. Here is a bill that the city had to pay and a breakdown of the charges.http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter20.htm

Interesting, yes Europe loved to burn the witches. However our "learned" friend said that s/he had studied the witch burnings in America so I was pointing out that no witches were ever burned on this side of the Atlantic.

[Benedict A. Davis]

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Interesting, yes Europe loved to burn the witches. However our "learned" friend said that s/he had studied the witch burnings in America so I was pointing out that no witches were ever burned on this side of the Atlantic.

I'm sorry, I think we are getting signals crossed I just sent this as I thought you might find it interesting as it seemed you have made some study on the subject as I have. My favorite reading has been on the professional witch prickers and the unholy copy-cats that followed them and attempted to sully their God given talents to hunt down true witches.

[John Scopes]

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Why are Homicide detectives from Des Moines in Freehold asking questions...... They just left my house. Some one told them of my large rock collection. This is not funny, I called my Joo lawyer. They want an alibi.

Consider the visit as social. All are innocent until proven guilty in America.

It actually could be looked at as an evolutionary culling of sorts from a scientific point of view. One defective genetic line eliminating another. Much like what happened between Cro Magnon and the Neanderthal.

This is such a fascinating place.