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It goes without saying that the Bible condemns witchcraft . Therefore, Wicca is condemned because Wicca is witchcraft. But, unfortunately as a result of some of the biblical passages about witchcraft, some Christians have killed witches. The Burning Times is a term Wiccans use to describe the persecution and killing of witches in the 1500's and 1600's. The truth is that Christians were involved in this atrocity citing Old Testament passages as justification for their actions, i.e., Exodus 22:18 , “You shall not allow a sorceress to live." This persecution and subsequent murders in the names of God and rightousness has been deemed The Burning Times...
T he probable number of people executed during the Burning Times was between 200,000 and 500,000. In the late1940's and early 1950's, several British Witches and occultists started talking about 9,000,000 "witches" killed. This number appears to have derived not from any research, but rather from an attempt to "one-up" the number of Jews exterminated by the Nazis in WW II. In order to support this contention, the definition of the Burning Times was changed. First, the period of the major witch hunts was extended from its peak, 1550 - 1675, backwards to the founding of the Inquisition (early 13th century). Second, the figures for judicial executions of heretics, notably the Cathari and the Waldensians, were included in the total. Finally, all judicial executions which took place during the Catholic "civil war" (the Avignon Papacy) were included. In effect, the definition of "witch" was changed to include "heretic".