Salem Witch Trial
Francis Bacon once wrote an atheism essay, and his opinions about that thing you can find from the Internet. But I am trying to say something else about religion, believing, and one of the biggest questions in the world is some kind of God existing. If we are thinking of ourselves as atheists we forget the difference between free will and atheism. In the Soviet Union, atheism was the way of the state. It was an order by authorities. If a person was not an atheist, that means problems with the state.
And that thing was the chain for thinking in that state. Atheism was the tool for political control. At this point, we must say again that real scientist ever believes anything without thinking about the thing. The scientists must always ask "why we must do something as some people say"?
Atheism is the religion as well other religions, and that thing would put the chains in our minds. Atheism is the thing, that denies the existence of God, but at the same time we forget to describe the word "God". Is god something that has a higher technological level than human has, or is it some kind of "judge-creature"?
When we are talking about science, we are always telling people, that science is atheistic, but in that case, we are trapping some possibilities away from our minds. But why Inquisition was so hard when it protected the Church? Why everybody whose opinions were different from the Inquisitors faced a painful and terrifying death on the bonfire in front of the people?
When we are thinking of religion we always think that The Inquisition is the same thing as religion. Because the inquisitors were acting in the name of the church. The Inquisition is the synonym for the religion, but that thing is something more and more evil than we even think it could be. It was the hand of the "king of the kings" the Catholic church, and the mission of that system was to defend the religion.
Salem witch trial
Were the stories about "Skin-walkers" the reason what caused mass-hysteria in Salem's village in colonial Massachusetts in 1692? Those events are remaining in history as the "Salem witch trial".
When we are justifying The Inquisition, we forget that also Protestants convicted people to death in court after prosecution for witchcraft. The Salem witch trial in colonial Massachusetts was the result of the mass hysteria between February 1692 and May 1693 costs the lives of the people and that thing was a shame for puritans.
The reason for that mass hysteria is ever explained, but the reason for those hysteric symptoms might be some kind of vegetable like ergot what involves the lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), or some other poison, what causes hallucinations. In some other theories, the African Sleeping sickness caused the symptoms, which has convicted the reason for the influence of Satan. The reason why Puritans had that wich hysteria at that time is a mystery. But there is a possibility, that the strange symptoms, what connected with the tales about "Skin-walkers" caused those sad events.
Sometimes the reason for the hysteria was the tales about Skin-walkers, who identified as the "Satan who can take every possible form". The "Skin-walkers" is an Indian tale about creatures, which can take every form they want. So was the tale about this creature that caused the mass hysteria in that village? The mass hysteria which cost the life of 20 people who convicted to death is the thing, what remains in history. But why those 14 women and 6 men were hanging? Was there something that was hidden in that court?
Sources:
Inquisition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Salem witch trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
Skin-walkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
Image: https://cdn.britannica.com/51/19151-050-4BEE998D/Witch-trial-lithograph-Salem-Massachusetts-George-H-1892.jpg
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