The Brand New Birther Thread

Did you know that King James VI & I of England (yeah the King James Bible guy) was a proponent and author in the detection, trial, and execution of witches? This included the torture to obtain confessions which then led to burning. Check Daemonologie as his work. Daemonologie - WikipediaWitch hunts were big deals throughout Europe and Colonial America, both Protestant and Catholic.
Witch-hunt - Wikipedia

The Protestant witch trials in Salem and the North Berwick (which King James attended and included in his book) involved torture.The methods to kill witches used by both Protestants and Catholics were horrendous and barbaric.I don't know why you hammer so hard on the sins of the Catholics but ignore the sins of the Protestants. Humans are humans with examples of saints and sinners in every group you look at. Edited by 14174dm, : quotation code

Fifty million? Quick internet search gives multiple sources of numbers in the tens of thousands. You'll have to come up with reliable sources before I believe a number that enormous. Seriously? Native Americans? African slaves? Irish Catholics? Especially during the Potato Famine?This string of posts is off-topic and should be in another thread.