Your comment is just so weird and misses the actual historical context by so much that I don’t even know where to begin.
The Klan didn‘t burn witches.
More Men were burnt for Witchcraft than women in the Northern Europe, while more women were persecuted in Southern Europe. It has never really been a thing that women get prosecuted for witchcraft but men don‘t.
Prosecution for Witchcraft also wasn‘t really a religious thing, since the Church hated it and condemned it, but rather a reaction to colder climates and shortages and the mistrust that followed - it‘s telling that most people executed for being witches were wealthy and old. And while it was framed around beliefs of devilworship and Christian belief, that was certainly not the cause, but only the attempt of legitimization. The same way people tried to rationalize the concept of a hierarchy of races through science and thus tried to legitime the awful things they did. It‘s just the framework of the time.
Also, the Klan explicitly persecuted Catholics. The religious denomination(s) the Klan espoused didn’t even exist when the witches were burned.
The first point about religious fanaticism is kinda understandable in a super general way, as in hyper religious people in all of human history and places tended to do exclusion and persecution, but the attempt of making a point about men and women is just lacking any connection here.
Not only are you comparing two things that really have nothing to do with each other, your underlying understanding of these things is also wrong. There is no connection there other than the moral depths Humanity can reach if they feel another group of people is different and inferior to themselves.
TheFoxer1 t1_je4op6s wrote
Reply to comment by FinancialArmadillo93 in Klan Pamphlet from 1924 by AssumptionWinter4442
What are you talking about here?
Your comment is just so weird and misses the actual historical context by so much that I don’t even know where to begin.
The Klan didn‘t burn witches.
More Men were burnt for Witchcraft than women in the Northern Europe, while more women were persecuted in Southern Europe. It has never really been a thing that women get prosecuted for witchcraft but men don‘t.
Prosecution for Witchcraft also wasn‘t really a religious thing, since the Church hated it and condemned it, but rather a reaction to colder climates and shortages and the mistrust that followed - it‘s telling that most people executed for being witches were wealthy and old. And while it was framed around beliefs of devilworship and Christian belief, that was certainly not the cause, but only the attempt of legitimization. The same way people tried to rationalize the concept of a hierarchy of races through science and thus tried to legitime the awful things they did. It‘s just the framework of the time.
Also, the Klan explicitly persecuted Catholics. The religious denomination(s) the Klan espoused didn’t even exist when the witches were burned.
The first point about religious fanaticism is kinda understandable in a super general way, as in hyper religious people in all of human history and places tended to do exclusion and persecution, but the attempt of making a point about men and women is just lacking any connection here.
Not only are you comparing two things that really have nothing to do with each other, your underlying understanding of these things is also wrong. There is no connection there other than the moral depths Humanity can reach if they feel another group of people is different and inferior to themselves.