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I hate to put forth an entirely negative note, but I'm going to anyway. This article has no substance and it presents no useful information about witchcraft. This page should be moved to debate and a search for witchcraft should link to the wicca page, which has a solid, if strongly liberal, basis for an informational page on witchcraft. With pages like this, I honestly don't understand how conservapedia expects to develop a respectable reputation. --[[User:Laches|Laches]] 19:19, 7 June 2007 (EDT)
I hate to put forth an entirely negative note, but I'm going to anyway. This article has no substance and it presents no useful information about witchcraft. This page should be moved to debate and a search for witchcraft should link to the wicca page, which has a solid, if strongly liberal, basis for an informational page on witchcraft. With pages like this, I honestly don't understand how conservapedia expects to develop a respectable reputation. --[[User:Laches|Laches]] 19:19, 7 June 2007 (EDT)
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===I would consider the following change:===
"In some Western countries, the mere accusation of being a witch was enough to assure conviction and execution.[Citation Needed] This made it easy for an unpopular woman to be falsely accused.[Citation Needed]
Perhaps tens of thousands of women were murdered,[Citation Needed] merely because someone maliciously denounced them in this way.[Citation Needed]
Some people have concluded from this that we ought to put aside the entire idea of witchcraft being evil, so that it removes the grounds for false accusation.[Citation Needed] Others maintain that witchcraft is against God's law because it's real and is a real problem. Whether these two views contradict each other is a matter of controversy."
===Suggested:===
"In some Western countries during the later Middle Ages and into the Renaissance period, being accused of witchcraft could lead to conviction and execution. It was possible for those who did not practice witchcraft to be falsely accused.
Over a course of several hundred years, tens of thousdands of people were killed due to an accusation of witchcraft, about a quarter of which were men.
With a modern resurgence in varies forms of occult witchcraft practices, some have suggested the stigma of evil associated with witchcraft should be removed. Others maintain that witchcraft is against God's law and needs to continue to be spoken out against. At what point witchcraft moves from being harmless fun or a form of philosophy into the realm of becoming dangerous is a matter of controversy."