So that's your deflection now, just call people pedophiles. You can't argue any other point so you must find a way to discredit them.
I'm Amongst the belief that when Jesus said,
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"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea." |
The irony of you accusing me of deflection because I can't argue any other point while quoting that Bible verse is just *chef's kiss*
And yet another reason to watch vtubers!
They accidentally expose how Kiwi Farmers are ruining society by normalizing their abhorrent behaviour!
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Of the people Williams accused and/or testified against, 15 were executed, one was tortured to death, and the others either died in jail, were pardoned, were found not guilty, escaped jail, or evaded arrest altogether.
After the witch trials ended, several members of Reverend Samuel Parris’ congregation fought for years to have Parris dismissed from the church due to his role in the Salem Witch Trials. His dissenters submitted a list of problems they had with Parris, which included a number of issues that were directly related to Williams and the afflicted girls.
These problems involved the dissenter’s inability to attend church during the witch trials because of “the distracting and disturbing tumults and noises, made by persons under diabolical power and delusions, preventing sometimes our hearing, understanding, and profiting by the words preached” and also Parris’ “easy and strong faith and belief of the affirmations and accusations made by those they called afflicted.”
In November of 1694, Parris responded to these claims by writing an essay titled Meditations for Peace, in which he stated that God tried to teach him a lesson by allowing the witch hunt to begin in his family.
The essay also states that the fact that some people in his household were accusers (Abigail Williams and Betty Parris) and the accused (Tituba) in the Salem Witch Trials was also a personal reprimand from God.
The essay also excused Betty Parris and Abigail Williams’ behavior during the trials by stating that the Devil sometimes not only afflicts people in the shape of innocent people but also deludes “the senses of the afflicted that they strongly conceive their hurt is from such persons, when indeed it is not.”
As for himself, Parris acknowledged that using “one afflicted to inquire by who afflicts the others, I fear may be and has been unlawfully used, to Satan’s great advantage.”
These acknowledgments did nothing to help Parris or his cause. In 1697, Parris’ dissenters won, and Parris was dismissed from his job as minister of the church. He left
Salem Village shortly after, taking Betty Parris and, most likely, Abigail Williams with him.
Neither Abigail Williams nor Betty Parris ever apologized for their roles in the Salem Witch Trials. Ann Putnam, Jr., was the only afflicted girl who did when she submitted a written apology to the church in Salem Village in 1706. ..."