Sascha Noyes wrote:
A good example of why it is a bad idea to use the CE as
a starting-point for a
wikipedia entry: (found on [[Witchhunt]] and quickly removed)
"The question of the reality of witchcraft is one upon which it is not easy to
pass a confident judgment. In the face of Holy Scripture and the teaching of
the Fathers and theologians the abstract possibility of a pact with the Devil
and of a diabolical interference in human affairs can hardly be denied"
;-)
Further to my previous post, the incomplete quotation is more POV than
the full sentence in the CE. Here's the rest of it:
but no one can read the literature of the subject
without realizing
the awful cruelties to which this belief and without being convinced
that in 99 cases out of 100 the allegations rest upon nothing better
than pure delusion.
One should at least give credit to the editors of the CE for recognizing
that the topic was problematic.
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