Question by eru_desu94: How did witchcraft and witchhunt occur in an age of scientific enlightenment in Europe?
How do you explain the phenomenon of witchcraft and witch hunts in an age of scientific enlightenment? Also, why did the witch panic occur in the late 16th and early 17th centuries? How might the reformation have contributed to it?
We’re learning about this in my AP Euro class and I was wondering about this.
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Answer by muinghan
Ignorance among the masses.
During your “age of scientific enlightenment” it wasn’t unusual to find only priests/clergy and an academic in town that could even read.
Those that COULD read usually only read the Bible.
And in the US and England, even though people were Christian, they still held a lot of old superstitous folk beliefs.
Naivety. Ignorance. Superstitions. Panic. Fear.
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Just as today’s conservatives hate science and want to make religion and government the same thing, there was a lot of resistance to science back then, too. The Roman Catholic Church was still burning the occasional person for teaching science, for if all is science, then where is their god? What place is there for a poor carpenter whose very existence is doubtful? If all is science, with no god or devil, then why have a hugely rich, bloated theocracy that controls all of life in Europe, including the selection of kings?
Why, indeed?
lol is it in ur list of 6 chapter 14 questions?
Omg what’s with you people and wanting to be like Harry Potter… You and your witchcraft business. Listen, the only power you can have is Faith in God… there’s no wands its called putting ur hands together and praying… Thats the most powerful magic there is out there.