• Rothe@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    Contrary to popular myth, where people believe it is a Catholic medieval thing, the burning of witches was primarily an early modern Protestant thing. So Germany, Britain, Scandinavia were the major perpetrators in that regard.

    It is not like the Catholics didn’t burn people, but it was primarily for heresy.

    • Brummbaer@pawb.social
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      5 days ago

      Indeed, protestantism was a successful fundamentalist movement. I don’t think we would have capitalism in this form if they had lost.