March 3, 2025

Salem Witch Trials: Introduction

Salem Witch Trials: Introduction

I begin a series on the Salem Witch Trials

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I begin a series on the Salem Witch Trials

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Monday, March the third, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently two eighteen pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now outside, I have a

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window right behind me. Outside that window, right now, we

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are in a wind warning here in Texas. There's possible

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chance for severe storms. So if you hear like lots

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of noise in the background, I hate even trying to

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explain it. But at the same time, if I don't

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explain it, every time I hear a sound in the background,

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I'm going to think I need to explain to you

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what's going on. So let's just get this out of

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the way right now. There, we are in a wind

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warning here in West Texas. So if you hear all

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kinds of craziness going on in the background, I apologize

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for that. I know it does distract, and I know

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it kind of takes away from what I want to

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accomplish here, but I'm going to do my very best

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to try to accomplish it in spite of the fact that, well,

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it sounds like the end of the world going on outside,

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all right, So we're going to ignore that and we're

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going to talk about well another time, Well, well we're

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going to talk about what kind of the weather. Let's

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let's do this. Are you ready? Let me set the

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scene for you. It was October twenty eighteen. October twenty eighteen.

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I get inside a car. Now to get to the car,

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I had to walk a little ways. And let me

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tell you, ladies and gentlemen, it was freezing outside that

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October twenty eighteen. I get in a car and I

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start driving. I leave one city and I arrive at

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another city. I get out of the car, and we

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were going to walk to a museum, and it's a

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very long walks. It's in the evening time. It's a

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pretty good distance, and it is freezing outside. And from

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the I really even before I stepped out of the car,

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just when the car drove into this new again, I

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left one city to drive to another city. As soon

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as the car kind of pulled into that city. There's

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no way for me to ever be able to explain

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this that makes any sense. But there was just this

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feeling that I begin to get I cannot put it

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into words, I cannot describe it, but I begin to go, WHOA,

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there is something about this place. And then when I

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got out of the car, and as much as I

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hate cold weather, and anyone who knows me knows I

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despise cold weather, I get out of the car, I

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am freezing, so typically any other feeling at that point,

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it's not going to be entering my mind or thoughts,

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because I'm just going to be thinking it is too

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cold to be out here. But we get out of

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the car and we start walking, and we start walking

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and then I see the museum ahead and I'm like,

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oh wow, this this is awesome. And I go to

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the museum. I watch the presentation at first, and I

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go look at all the displays and everything they have

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and kind of listen to the tour guide talk about

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everything and the second half of my time there, and

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then I get I leave the museum, walk back to

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the car, freezing cold, and then I drive out of

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the city. Again. That's all I do. I just drive

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into the city, go to the museum, and leave. I

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don't see anything else. I don't look at anything else,

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but from that very moment, October twenty eighteen, me and

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that city become like almost like connected in a very

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deep way. And that city that I'm referring to is

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the city of Salem in Massachusetts. Salem, Massachusetts, I visited

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my very first time October of twenty eighteen, and I

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cannot explain my connection to it. It makes no sense.

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There's no logical explanation for it. I'm not trying to

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say it's something supernatural or anything or spiritual. It's just

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sometimes you walk into a maybe a location or a

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city and there's just something about it and you're you're

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always going to be connected to it for some particular reason. Now,

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that night, it was October. If you have ever ever

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been to Salem, Massachusetts, and during October, you know what

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I'm referring to. There were people everywhere. That place is

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packed in October. But I there and I went to

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the Salem Witch Museum on that particular October evening and

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twenty eighteen, and from that point on, I mean, I

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already knew a lot about Salem. I already knew a

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lot about well, the Salem Witch Trials. I already I mean,

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I thought I knew a lot. But then that led

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me to. I mean, year after year after year of

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studying it, reading books, studying it, trying to create my

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own chronological timeline, trying to do all of this just

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work and to understand it even more. And I'm still here.

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We are twenty twenty five, and I'm still studying and

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still reading everything I can find about the Salem Witch Trials. Now,

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why am I talking about this my trip in twenty eighteen. Well,

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in some ways we need to go back even further.

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Forget twenty eighteen. Let's go back to March the first

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sixteen ninety two March, the first sixteen ninety two. In fact,

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we kind of, well probably none of you, but I

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kind of celebrated this anniversary on March the first, sixteen

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ninety two, because that was three hundred and thirty three

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years ago, sixteen ninety two, March, the first, three hundred

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and thirty three years ago, and that day kind of, really,

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I guess, in many ways starts what we know as

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the Salem Witch Trials. March the first, sixteen ninety two,

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three hundred and thirty three years ago, all right, And

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it's really interesting because that starts really on March the first.

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My birthday is March the second. I always connect my

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my birthday, March the second, to obviously Texas Independence Day,

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because that's that's what it is here in Texas. Texas

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Independence Day. I always connect it to that. I didn't

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realize it that March the second is also very close

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to the beginning of the Salem witch Trials. Now, for

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those who are historians, you may argue, well, March the first,

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sixteen ninety two, zoo is not really the start. It

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kind of started before that. Well, the hysteria and the

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things happening actually started January of sixteen ninety two. We'll

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get to that. In fact, I believe we have to

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go even back further and we have to leave Salem

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and we have to go to Boston and we're going

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to talk about well, well, I don't know if we're

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going to get to it in this episode. This episode

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is going to kind of serve as a kind of

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just as an introduction, because I don't know how many

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episodes we're going to do, but we're going to be

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doing a number of episodes about everything that happened in Salem,

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and I'm going to put forth my own ideas, hypotheses

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and theories, and I feel like that I have. I

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feel like I earned at least, I will put it

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this way. Maybe in your mind, I have it. I

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fell in my mind, I earn at least some freedom

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to be able to offer some speculation and some hypotheses

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and some theories, just because of the sheer number of

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hours of reading and studying everything I can about Salem.

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And I don't even I'm still I think in some

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ways I've only scratched the surface of everything. I think

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a lot of people are like, okay, well, there was

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some witch trials and people died. Well that's said, Okay,

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move on. Some people are like, ooh, Salem, you know

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October Halloween. It's creepy, it's spooky, let's go visit. Okay,

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some people like that. For me, all it goes much

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deeper than all of that. So let's do an introduction

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to the Salem witch trials. Let's so, let's at least

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give you the foundation, and then I'll build on the foundation.

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And I'm going to be looking at this from a

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very specific point of view. I think. All right, so

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I'm sorry. I wish my introduction could have been a

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little bit better. I hate that I had to mention

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the wind outside, and I tried to I mean my

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connecting the wind outside to the cold night and October

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of twenty eighteen when I drove into Salem. I didn't

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really put that together perfectly. But what we're going to

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do here, I am going to go to do my

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very best to try to make this work as much

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as possible, because at least I have a passion about this,

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and I feel like it serves as some strong warnings

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for everyone, Okay, especially those who claim to be Christian

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and for the church. I think Salem. A lot of

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people connect the warnings and lessons to Salem to the culture,

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and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. Salem

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is not teaching lessons to the culture. Salem is not

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just teaching lessons. It's slapping anyone who claims to be

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a Christian and the church at large in the face

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and go, hey, guys, we need to talk because that,

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to me is what makes Salem so powerful. But let's

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do a brief overview, all right, for those who do

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not know the Salem witch Trials Salem, Massachusetts, right. The

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Salem witch Trials were one of the most infamous episodes

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of mass hysteria and religious extremism in early American history.

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The Salem Witch Trials were one of the most infamous

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episodes of mass hysteria and religious extremism and early American history.

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Mass hysteria and religious extremism. I will argue it was

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their religion. In many cases, it was their theology that

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led to the mass hysteria. Now, this entire situation took

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place between sixteen ninety two and sixteen ninety three, sixteen

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ninety two and sixteen ninety three, and it occurred in

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Salem Village. Now, if you ever go visit Salem, everyone

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should go visit Salem. Everyone should. Everyone should go. Buy

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a plane ticket, get in a car, go to Salem, Massachusetts.

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Go and do everything you can when you're there. It's

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an amazing place. However, if you go to Salem, there's

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all these museums, there's all kinds of things. There be

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tour guides, there's walking tours, there's just so much. But

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a lot of times the people sharing things with you,

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I mean, I'm not trying to be mean, but they

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just have memorized a script, and a lot of cases

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they don't really have a lot of working knowledge about

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the history. So just let me just go ahead and

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just this is going to be disappointing for some of

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you if you go to Salem, just remember you're kind

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of been the wrong place, all right. If you're driving

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from Boston to Salem, which was what I did my

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first time there, you're gonna see some road signs for

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a place. If I remember correctly, I believe you see

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the road signs for a place called Danvers Danvers, Massachusetts,

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s DA and ve Rs Danvers, Massachusetts. All right, that's

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really where you want to go. Now. I love Salem,

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and trust me. In Salem, the city of Salem as

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we know it today, there's still a lot there, and

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there is connection to the Salem Witch trials. Salem has

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the name Salem Danvers, which would used to be referred

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to as Salem Village. Well they got rid of it.

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It's like they were like, no, what, we don't want

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this name, we don't want to be associated with Salem.

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Let us get rid of the name. And then someone

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in Salem like, well we'll keep the name Salem here.

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Well we'll be like this is Salem village versus the

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city of Salem. We can get into all the distinctions

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but someone in Salem realized it. I mean, this is

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what it feels like. Hey, I know this was a

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really horrible thing that happened, but we could probably make

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this work in our favor. And well, now it's a

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you know, how many hundreds of thousands of people descend

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on Salem every October. It is crazy. But Danvers is

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kind of like nobody really talks about it. But really

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what it was called Salem Village at the time, and

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that is modern day Danvers, Massachusetts. All right, that's really

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the place. Okay, So all of this takes place between

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sixteen ninety two and sixteen ninety three. In fact, my

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next time I go to Boston, I think my priority

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is going to be go to Danvers first before I'll

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obviously go back to Salem. Because if I'm going to

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be anywhere near Boston, I'm going to Salem. Like that's

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that's almost that's I mean, that's like it's a rule.

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If I'm going to be in Boston, I don't care

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about Boston. I want to go to Salem. Now, in

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preparing for a lot of this, I begin to realize, well,

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maybe I need to go do some walking around Boston.

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I've done a lot of walking around Boston. Maybe I

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need to do some more walking around Boston, because Boston,

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I think is the source of all of the problems here. Okay,

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in a particular Puritan minister that I think deserves a

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lot of the blame here. But okay, but we will,

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we'll get into all of that. So just note this

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all takes place in sixteen ninety two and sixteen ninety

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three and what we would refer to as Salem Village

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at that time, Danvers, Massachusetts and modern times. All right,

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The trials, the trials plural, resulted in the execution of

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twenty people, mostly women, and the imprisonment of many others.

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This was all based on accusations of witchcraft. This was

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rooted in Puritan beliefs, social tensions, and fear of the supernatural.

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The trials revealed the dangerous consequences of fear driven justice

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and unchecked authority. Once you can instill fear in people,

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you instill fear, you give them an enemy, you give

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them some place. Hey, you need to be fearful. Look

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over here, that's your enemy. That's the threat, that's the danger.

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The minute you can have a little bit of fear

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and you give someone an enemy who cares. I don't care,

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even within the church, even within Christianity, we don't care

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about just we don't care about love. We just want well,

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we just want our the threat to be removed. And

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we don't care if we conduct ourselves in a correct

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manner or not. Now, the origins of the hysteria, Now,

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I'm just gonna for this introduction. I'm just gonna kind

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of do the origins of what happened right there Salem village,

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what happens right there at the kind of the beginning.

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We need to take the origin story back. We need

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to go back to Boston, right, That's what we're where

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we really need to go. We will get there. We

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will get there because I because there what happened in Boston. Man,

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all this story gets just crazy, okay, and nobody talks

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about this. Everyone wants to run to Salem. Nobody even runs.

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Everyone skips Danvers. They they don't even bother going there.

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But you need you need to go to Boston really

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to kind of figure this all out. But here's where

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it all kind of started. All right. We go to

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January sixteen ninety two. Now the trials are kind of March.

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The first, sixteen ninety two, three hundred and thirty three

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years ago. But you really need to go back to

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January of sixteen ninety two, and you have to start

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with these two young girls. Just keep this in mind.

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Oh this is so crazy, all right, how this all

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when we put this all together? To me, you should

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just be blown away by it. But here we go.

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The witchcraft panic began in January sixteen ninety two when

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Betty Paris remember that last named Paris pa r rs.

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When Betty Paris and Abigail Williams now Betty was nine

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years of age, Abigail was eleven. Please keep that. Keep

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their ages in mind. They're nine and eleven, all right,

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keep that in mind. Okay, because you would think adults,

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You think adults, You think reasonable thinking adults. You know,

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those those Christians who believe in God, and we supposedly

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have insight and scriptures gives us light and all that.

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You know, you would think the adults would be able

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to figure some things out here. But it takes a

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nine year old and an eleven year old really to forget,

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you know, striking the match. They like, they put the

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gas on the they gather all the wood, cover it

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and gasoline, strike the match, throw in a couple of grenades.

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I mean there, I mean, really this nine and eleven

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year old? Really? Oh man? Okay, So Betty, she's nine,

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Abigail's eleven. They are the daughter and niece of Reverend

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Samuel Parris. Right, so Betty Paris, pastor's daughter, Abigail Williams,

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the niece of Reverend Samuel Parris p A. R. R.

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I s. Please remember his Reverend Samuel Parris. And just

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so that you know, they lived in Boston and moved

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to Salem our Salem Village, which is Danverse. Okay, he

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was in Boston, and he was in Boston during a

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very significant event in history that very much I believe

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is the origin of the Salem Witch Trials. Everyone says

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the Salem Witch Trials starts with Betty Parris and Abigail Williams.

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In some ways it does, but I think it actually

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begins well, and Boston was something that takes place, and

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oh that's where we're gonna have to ultimately get but

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we won't get there now, all right, So so the

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daughter and niece they begin exhibiting strange and violent fits.

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Soon other young girls in the village including Anne Putnam

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Putnam Putnam. I think it's how you would say the name.

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Putnam Junior reported similar symptoms. Right, So you have Betty

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Paris nine, Abigail eleven, and then you have other young

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girls in the village who begin to show these strange behavior,

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violent fits. There's all kinds of theories where they have

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in seizures. What were they doing or what was these

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violent fits? Why were they acting so strange? All these things?

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And then Anne Putnam junior reported similar symptoms, So guess what,

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They're acting weird, They're acting crazy. There's something going on.

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So they receive medical examinations and they were not able

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to find a medical explanation. The doctor's like, I don't know,

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I can't find anything wrong with these kids. I can't.

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They seem to be perfectly okay, there's nothing wrong. So

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and thinking, well, if we can't find a medical explanation,

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you know, do we just need to say, girl, snap

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out of it? What do you do and stop this? Rightwa?

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Do you stop playing around? Okay? I know, I know

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it's in the sixteen hundreds. I know there's no TikTok.

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I know. Okay, obviously I'm joking. You're bored. Let's find

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something else to do. No, they don't do that. The adults.

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The adults, in fact, in this particular case, a doctor

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diagnoses them. Not with a medical diagnosis. The doctor says,

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these girls are victims of witchcraft. These girls are victim

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of witchcraft. Some witch is tormenting them, some witches bewitching them,

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some witch is doing that. A doctor comes up with this,

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great what what a great way to go doctor, Way

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to go, doctor, Okay, way to go. Hey, that's what's

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going on here. So then the girls are called in,

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are like, come on, tell us, tell us who is

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tormenting you? Who who's doing this to you? Tell us

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we need an answer because there's no medical explanation. Now

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the girls are now kind of if there's no medical explanation,

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either the girls have to say, well, we're just messing around.

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We just wanted you to all be scared, or we

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got to name someone, right. So the girls accuse Tituba

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t i t u b a Titchapa, Oh, poor Titchuba,

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she's an enslaved woman and the Paris household. So the

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pastor has a slave. Okay, we won't get in, we

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won't get into all of that. Okay, all right, Oh

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but so the slave woman, this woman is enslaved there

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and guess what the girls Titchuba our slave. She's doing

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it to us. She she's the bad person. Oh but wait.

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They also then accuse Sarah Good, who is a poor

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beggar in town or in the village, I should say,

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and Salem village at the time, right, they accuse her,

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So they go after a slave woman, they go after

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a beggar. You kind of see that they're picking their

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their ac they're they're they're they are choosing who they're accusing.

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It seems like these girls may be young, but they

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seem pretty smart. Who's gonna believe a slave? Who's gonna

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believe a beggar? I mean, after all, I'm the pastor's daughter,

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after all, I'm the pastor's niece. We are we would

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be considered upstanding citizens. A slave, a beggar. Oh, and

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they often go and they off. They also accuse Sarah Osborne.

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So they accuse Titchiba, they accuse Sarah Good, and they

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accuse Sarah Osborne. Okay, they accused these three women. Now

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why why did they go after Sarah Osborne? Well, guess

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what she She's kind of scandalous because she was known

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as defying Puritan norms, didn't go along with all the

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Puritan rules, didn't necessarily want to play the Puritan reindeer games.

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So the girls go after a slave, they go after

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a beggar, and they go after a woman who's already

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probably talked about, you know, because Christians, I mean, of course,

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Christians never gossip at all. Right, there's never any you know,

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gossip going on around the Christian table, right, I'm assuming

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they heard some people talking about her, right, Titchiba, Sarah Good,

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and Sarah Osborne. There's a lot here I can say

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about these names, but I won't. I won't get into

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this right now, all right now. This marked the beginning

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of a rapidly expanding wave of accusations which ultimately ensnared

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people from all levels of Salem society. These two girls accused,

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three women, and chaos erupts, absolute total chaos erupts. In

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March sixteen ninety two, many will say March the first

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sixteen ninety two formal legal proceedings began, with judges relying

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heavily on spectral evidence. Keep that in mind, spectral evidence.

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We'll talk more about that I've talked about it before,

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and sermons talked about every time I go to Salem

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and come back, you end up hearing me talk about

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some of this stuff from the pulpit. All right, we'll

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talk about that spectral evidence, which is crazy because they

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go against their own rules. But all right, well we'll

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talk about that, all right. And when you say, well,

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what is spectral evidence? That is the claim that a

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witch's spirit could torment victims even while their physical body

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was elsewhere. So the girls could say, Ooho, they were

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tempting me, or they were tormenting me. Not tempting me,

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they were tormenting me, they were bewitching me. And they'd

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be like, well, but that woman was here or that

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woman was there, doesn't have to be it was horror.

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It was her spirit. She showed up. Well, how do

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you know it was her because she was in my room.

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She showed up. She was tormenting me, she was bothering me,

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she was causing me to do these things. But we

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have proof that she was here or she was there,

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It doesn't matter spectral evidence. They started accepting the idea

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that these women's spirits could be so separate from where

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they were physically, So then the girls could accuse anyone.

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You didn't need any therefore, you didn't need any evidence. Now,

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for the most part, even many of the Puritan ministers

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up to this point condemned the use of spectral evidence.

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They were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, you

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can't use this. But all of a sudden, these girls

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could say they did it, they did it, and they

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would be like, but they weren't there. Well, it was

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their spirit kind of thing, so they begin to accept

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this kind of this kind of accusation. The controversial method

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of proof blurred the lines between reality and paranoia. So

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because now you what's real, what's paranoia? All you gonna

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do is just think or feel this person was doing

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something and dare I say, or you could just make

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it up because you had a problem with someone. Well

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just keep that in mind. Now you had a special court,

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a special court. Now you may have heard of this.

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Let me see, I think I may play this for you.

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I think I have it. Yeah, here we go. There

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was a special court. Maybe you've heard of this, a

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special court known as Orior and Terminer orir and Terminer.

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That's the special court that's that's going to be put together,

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all right, Ori, your and Terminer if I can find this,

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I had some notes here. So a special court known

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as the Court of Orir and Terminer was established to

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handle the trials. So it's a special court. It's known

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as the Court of Oarrior Oyer, Terminer, Ternr. They are

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established to handle the trials. Prominent judges. I could give

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you their name. It's not gonna matter too much unless

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you visit Salem. Some of these names may mean something,

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all right, but they preside over the cases. The first

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person convicted. The first person convicted, Bridget Bishop, was hanged

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on June tenth, sixteen ninety two. Bridget Bishop is hanged

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on June tenth, sixteen ninety two. Over the next few months,

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nineteen more victims, fourteen women and five men were executed

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by hanging, and one man, Giles Cory, was pressed to

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death with heavy stones for refusing to enter a plea.

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So twenty people total, nineteen are basically are hung and

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one Giles Corey, he is pressed to death with heavy stones.

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They keep putting heavy stones on him, you know, basically confess.

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He refuses and was basically crushed to death. I mean

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all in the name of Jesus right, all in the

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name of Christianity. Okay, yeah, Oh, the whole thing gets

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messed up right now. By October of sixteen ninety two,

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the trials began losing credibility prominent figures, including including Increase

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Mather m A t h R. He is the father

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of Cotton Mather. Now this is very important. Remember that name,

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Cotton Mather, Cotton Mather, m A t h e R.

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Do not forget the name Cotton Mather, because he is

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He was in Boston, and he is. Dare I say

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he's actually the father of the Salem witch Trials? Can

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I say Cotton Mather is the father of the Salem

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witch Trials in many ways? I want to say, yeah,

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Cotton Mather, Yeah, yeah, he's involved. What's interesting is his father.

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His name is Increase Mather I N c R e

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a SE Mather. He is the father of Cotton Mather.

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He begins to criticize the reliance on spectral evidence. He

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begins to go, hey, guys, the spectral evidence thing is crazy.

458
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.640
Anybody can accuse anyone. So we can say, well, Sarah

459
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:44.200
showed up and started tormenting me. Sarah was five hundred

460
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.279
miles away doesn't matter spectral evidence. So how do you

461
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:49.839
defend yourself? Now, I was I was here. We know

462
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.119
you were here, but your spirit showed up. How did

463
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:54.799
your spirit show up? Well, I mean, I don't know.

464
00:29:54.960 --> 00:30:00.759
I didn't do anything. Oh that's what a witch would say.

465
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:08.079
So Massachusetts Governor William Phipps intervened, dissolving the Court of

466
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:10.920
Warrior Interminer and replacing it with a new court that

467
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:16.960
prohibited spectral evidence. So basically, the governor in Massachusetts is like, guys,

468
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.720
we forget this court. We need a new kind of court,

469
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:23.599
and you cannot use spectral evidence. That's got to go now.

470
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.799
From my understanding, and I don't know if it was

471
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.400
Phipps himself, but I think it's someone in Phipps's family

472
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:32.319
gets accused of being a witch, and then all of

473
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:35.240
a sudden he's like, no, no more spectral evidence. This

474
00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:39.359
is all gotta stop. Yeah, nobody cared until someone in

475
00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:42.079
power gets accused, and then all of a sudden, the

476
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:44.319
people in power are like, what hey, guys, you can't

477
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.119
accuse anybody in my family. This has got to stop now.

478
00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:49.559
I don't know if it's exactly that way, because again,

479
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:53.440
you hear stories you have to constantly do confirmation and

480
00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:55.759
we will work on some of these things to see

481
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.119
what we can find or not find. All right, So,

482
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:02.279
as a result of him basically changing the evidence, many

483
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:06.400
of the remaining accused were acquitted or had their sentences commuted.

484
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.000
By May sixteen ninety three, Governor Phipps officially a pardon

485
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:14.640
the remaining prisoners, effectively ending the Salem witch trials. However,

486
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.240
the damage had already been done. Twenty people dead, two

487
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.759
hundred people accused, and there were deep scars left in

488
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.599
the community. Don't you think there was some deep scars

489
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:30.480
left in that community? Yeah? Yeah, your child that they

490
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.319
accused my so and so of being a witch? What

491
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.640
is wrong with you people? I mean so obviously there was.

492
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:42.319
There was some deep rooted problems here, deep rooted problems here,

493
00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:51.480
deep rooted problems. Now the Salem witch trials should they

494
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:55.319
should be? They should? And I stress this because I

495
00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:57.279
don't think for most people. I don't think most people care.

496
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.240
I mean, look, I've been in Salem in October, been

497
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:02.920
Salem in July. I've been in Salem at different times,

498
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:07.319
and you know, I love to watch everyone, you know,

499
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:11.759
watching and looking at things and so many times you

500
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:16.400
can just tell that the people there it's fun. It's like, oh,

501
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:23.400
Salem scary, which is vampires, you know, satanist you know, seances,

502
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.319
you know, uh, there's you know, palm readers, and there's

503
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.359
there's there's there's fortune tellers. There's just all kinds of

504
00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:32.599
stuff in the city. And it's like a big game.

505
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.759
It's like a it's like everyone wants to play dress

506
00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:39.799
up and play and it's and and and on one hand,

507
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:43.559
I understand why, I understand the the interest in it,

508
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.240
and just because Salem is just a really like telling you,

509
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:49.200
there's a feeling that comes over you in the city.

510
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:54.240
It's amazing. But it there's a part of me that's

511
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:57.160
said because I'm like, is anybody learning the lessons here?

512
00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.799
Is anyone learning the lessons here? Anybody? Now? The average

513
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.079
person there, they can go and do whatever. Anyone, though,

514
00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:06.000
who walks into the city who claims to be a

515
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:10.839
Christian or just Christians who've never even been to Salem,

516
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.759
if you haven't learned the lessons of Salem, it really

517
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:18.000
bothers me because I think every Bible college, every seminary

518
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:21.880
should really talk about how Salem serves as a powerful

519
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:27.759
cautionary tell about the dangers of mass hysteria, religious fanaticism,

520
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:33.240
and a very flawed judicial process. A very flawed judicial process.

521
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.000
And I will say the flawed judicial process is because

522
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.960
they probably relied on Christianity way too much. Oh, I'm

523
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.039
going to take off a lot of Christians. Christians like

524
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:43.160
to think if people would just think like us and

525
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.559
act like us, everything will be perfect. History seems to

526
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:53.759
argue against that. One could argue that the Salem witch

527
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.279
trials expose the fragility of justice and a time of crisis,

528
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:01.880
and it led to future legal reforms. Yah, there needed

529
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.079
to be some serious legal reforms coming out of the

530
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:10.039
Salem witch trials, including greater skepticism of spectral evidence. No, no,

531
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.840
it shouldn't have led to skepticism about spectral evidence. It

532
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:17.760
should have been thrown out as some lunatics believing in

533
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.519
this stuff. And it began to give the idea that

534
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:27.920
maybe we need concrete proof in illegal proceeding. Maybe maybe

535
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:37.119
we need some concrete proof today Salem. I think I

536
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:41.239
think it's fair to say stands as a historical reminder

537
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:44.280
of those tragic events. I think I mean those tragic

538
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:47.280
events are still remembered. When people go to Salem, I

539
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:50.920
think it turns into a party, you know. But I

540
00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:53.920
think the tragic events are still very much at the forefront. There.

541
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:59.079
There are numerous sites, there's museums, and there's ongoing research

542
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:03.039
dedicated to understanding why such panic unfolded and how we

543
00:35:03.079 --> 00:35:06.639
can prevent history from repeating itself. Now, I will argue

544
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:10.960
that nobody's going to learn the lessons and we're going

545
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.519
to continue to repeat that history. I don't think anyone's

546
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.000
going to learn the lessons. The fact there's ongoing research,

547
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:18.719
I think that's awesome. I would love to meet those researchers.

548
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.480
But I can continue to do my own research and

549
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:27.039
have my own ideas about what occurred. Now, I want

550
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:31.599
to give you five significant reasons. I want to give

551
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:37.360
you five significant reasons why the church and Christians should

552
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:41.760
study the Salem witch Trials. I think every church, I

553
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:46.360
think every youth department, every church should have at least

554
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.199
a study on the Salem Witch Trials, maybe every few years.

555
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.039
I think the kids need to learn about what I mean, really,

556
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.039
the kids definitely need to learn about what happened the

557
00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:57.679
same witch trials because there was two girls who started

558
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.199
all of the nonsense. And you said, but you said,

559
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:04.119
it starts in Boston. Boston. Oh, just wait till you

560
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.000
hear how it starts in Boston. Just wait, just wait.

561
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:12.079
It is crazy. It is crazy. What went down in Boston? Okay? Yeah,

562
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:16.360
forget the Boston tea party, all right, forget the Boston Celtics,

563
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:21.719
forget the forget anything about Boston. Just yeah, whoa what

564
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:25.440
happened there? Okay? All right, all right, we'll get to that.

565
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.159
All right, But here's the five reasons why I think

566
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:31.360
Christians should study and learn about the Salem Witch Trials.

567
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:35.079
Your church should. If you're a homeschool Uh, if you're

568
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:38.119
a homeschool parent, you need to teach your kids about

569
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:40.000
the Salem Witch Trials, right, and then you need to

570
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:43.559
take a field trip to Salem. All right, here we go, right, yeah,

571
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:47.440
it's you have to Number one, I think we should

572
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:50.719
study and learn. Here's here's some key reasons why we

573
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:53.559
should study and learn from the Salem Witch Trials. Number one,

574
00:36:53.679 --> 00:37:02.119
I think we learned the danger of religious extremism. And oh,

575
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:05.599
I'm just gonna put these together, the danger of religious

576
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:16.840
extremism and the misinterpretation of scripture. The danger of religious

577
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.079
extremism and the misinterpretation of script. When you see Salem

578
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.599
and you read about everything, I'm like, maybe if people

579
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.519
had some I don't know, basic hermeneutics, we wouldn't end

580
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:31.000
up in this nonsense. Okay, maybe I don't know, but hey,

581
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:34.440
the same kind of thing that I that I learned

582
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.199
about in Salem, I watched it play out right here

583
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:41.199
in West Texas, right right here in West Texas as

584
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:45.280
a teenager during the Great Satanic Scare. That it's talked

585
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.000
about in popular culture, I think stranger things they talked

586
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:51.599
about it. It's talked about in popular culture because here

587
00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.039
in West Texas when I was a teenager, there was like, oh,

588
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:59.119
there's teams of Satanists marching around trying to kidnap children.

589
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.800
We're all gonna die. We gotta be careful. Satan is everywhere.

590
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:06.159
And then churches were holding these rock conferences. Oh, this

591
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:09.000
Satan is in the music. And if you listen to

592
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:11.960
this music, demons, we'll crawl out of the speakers and

593
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.800
they will get it. We'll get you. And Satan is here.

594
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:18.400
And if you play this song backwards, it's evil messages

595
00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:21.320
from Satan. Oh and do this, And I remember at

596
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:25.679
least one year, many of the small towns around here

597
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.599
they gave a curfew on Halloween night. I can't remember

598
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.360
exactly which year there was a curfew and no kids

599
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:33.719
could be out after Dart because they were fearful of

600
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:39.760
Satanists kidnapping and sacrificing children. It was it got that

601
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:46.960
crazy mass hysteria, panic, paranoia, craziness. And you talk about

602
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.599
scriptures being ripped out of context, it was like it

603
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:54.360
was like a crazy just It was an explosion of insanity,

604
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:58.920
and I watched it all unfold right here in West Texas. Well,

605
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.000
it happened way before West Texas when I was a teenager.

606
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:04.440
Goes all the way back to the sixteen ninety two,

607
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:08.159
all right. So the Puritan leaders of Salem, even though

608
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.719
they were deeply committed to their faith, I think they

609
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:16.320
had a zeal without wisdom and it led to misguided

610
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:22.079
theology that justified persecution. They were committed to their faith.

611
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.480
I'm not gonna die. I'm not gonna be one of those. Oh,

612
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.639
those Puritans weren't real believers. They were committed to their faith.

613
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.039
They had a zeal for their faith, but there was

614
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:34.239
no wisdom and it led it to It led to

615
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:39.920
a misguided theology, and it justified persecution. I mean, obviously

616
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:42.039
they were justifying other things as well, but we could

617
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.280
get into all of that. Basically, they began to take

618
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:48.400
scriptures about spiritual warfare and resisting evil, were taking to

619
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:53.880
extreme interpretations, and it began to fuel fear and hysteria

620
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.960
rather than truth than justice. They had they had bibles,

621
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:02.199
you know, and people were taking their Bibles and oh

622
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:04.119
how about this scripture and the scripture and next thing,

623
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.440
you know, well, it was chaotic. And one of the

624
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.400
best things to do when you study the Salem witch

625
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.320
Trials is to go research the sermons preached prior to

626
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.280
the beginning of the witch trials, the sermons that were

627
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:23.039
preached during the witch trials, and the sermons that were

628
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:27.119
preached immediately after. And you need to track down a

629
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:32.440
copy of a specific book written by a specific person

630
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:35.480
who I think is the father of the Salem witch Trials.

631
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.440
I already mentioned his name. Well, we're going to talk

632
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:43.559
about that book and great detail, because that book, that

633
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.199
book is the problem in my mind. All right, But

634
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:52.480
so the church must always ensure that zeal for righteousness,

635
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.280
our zeal for our faith is guided by some kind

636
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:01.719
of actual wisdom, some proper hermeneutic, some sound doctrine, some

637
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.800
idea of biblical justice, not fear based reaction and cultural

638
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:10.880
pressure and cultural war and all the craziness. No, no,

639
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:13.760
we have to say, look, we want zeal for our Christianity,

640
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.480
but we don't allow it to be hijacked by fear

641
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:26.400
and bad theology and prejudice and bigotry and politics. I

642
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:28.199
think we have a scripture. In fact, I'm going to

643
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:33.599
reach down here. I don't have my normal Bible because

644
00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:36.960
it's in the book bag way over there at the

645
00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:40.079
top of the stairs here to the studio. But I

646
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:44.840
can see if I can find this scripture, because I

647
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:47.880
think this is a good scripture right here to memorize,

648
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:50.559
or not well, maybe even to memorize, but to definitely

649
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:55.119
quote right here. Let's go to Second Timothy. I think

650
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:56.920
you already know where I'm going to go. Let's go

651
00:41:56.960 --> 00:42:00.800
to Second Timothy, chapter one, verse seven. Now this has

652
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.199
specific textual context, but I think I think it's fair

653
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.320
to quote this here two Timothy one seven. For God

654
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.360
has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power,

655
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:16.039
of love and of a sound mind. Now now Christians.

656
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.320
You have to hear that so many especially. I mean

657
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:21.239
I was watching some conference the other day on the

658
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.760
Sermon's two point o app and it was like, you know, oh,

659
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:26.079
there's this group and this group and they're trying to

660
00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:28.159
take over this and they're trying to and here are

661
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.599
the elites and they're coming after us, and Satan is

662
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:32.400
going to use this. And it's like, you know, the

663
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:37.599
liberals and wokeism and whoever the new enemy is, whoever

664
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.960
it is. We Christians love to create this sense of

665
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:43.400
we have an enemy and we need to be worried

666
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:46.800
or concerned because it's gonna destroy us. But the Bible says, no,

667
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:49.159
God is not giving you the spirit of fear. Stop

668
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.360
with the fear, stop with the panic, stop with the worry.

669
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.159
Stop thinking everything is gonna everything that goes bump in

670
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:59.239
the night is going to kill you. And maybe we

671
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:03.199
need a spirit of power, of love and of a

672
00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:08.320
sound mind. We need to have logic and reason and

673
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:13.559
rationality and correct understanding of scripture and stop allowing our

674
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:18.079
fear and dehumanizing and creating enemies so that we start

675
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:23.199
thinking like I don't know, crazy wacked out conspiracy theorist

676
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:32.960
and paranoia and superstition, and fear and insanity. So the first,

677
00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:36.599
I think main reason we need to study the Salem

678
00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:39.519
witch trials is because of the danger of religious extremism

679
00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:46.280
and misinterpretation of scripture. Second, the dangers of false accusations

680
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:51.159
and bearing false witness. The false accusations and Salem led

681
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.239
to the destruction of many innocent lives. Many of the

682
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:59.400
accusers accusers acted out of personal grudges, fear, or pressure

683
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:02.159
from others. Please note that many of the accusations were

684
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.760
made out of personal grudges. I don't like you, Boom,

685
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:08.800
I'm gonna accuse you of this. This is where you

686
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:13.480
dehumanize your enemy. Now, Christians have been playing this game

687
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:18.719
way before the sixteen hundreds, but it's very popular today. Look,

688
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.840
we don't like them, we can accuse them of whatever.

689
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.880
We can accuse them. We can accuse them and accuse

690
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:28.559
them and call them names because we dehumanize our enemy.

691
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:31.639
And then we just attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack,

692
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:35.679
making any claim that we want. Beyonce is the Illuminati,

693
00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:40.159
Taylor Swift as a Satanist, Taylor Swift as a witch. Whatever,

694
00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:43.119
we can say whatever we want about anybody. Well, guess what.

695
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:46.679
I don't know. I thought the Bible said something about

696
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:51.960
not making false accusations, not bearing false witness. But Christians

697
00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:57.159
don't care. If we go after some politician or celebrity

698
00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.679
whom we don't like or agree with, we feel like

699
00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:02.760
we can accuse them of anything, we can call them names.

700
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:06.480
We haven't learned a thing from the Salem witch trials.

701
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.119
The biblical command against bearing false witness was ignored in

702
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:17.920
a rush to eliminate perceived evil. Christians must uphold truth

703
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:22.199
and due process, resisting the temptation to judge others without

704
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.280
clear and just evidence. We must be careful on how

705
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.559
we handle accusations, whether in the church and personal relationships

706
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:38.480
are in society. Oh, I think it's still in my Bible.

707
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:40.760
I don't know. I mean it is twenty twenty five.

708
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.119
It is three hundred and thirty three years after the

709
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.079
Salem witch Trials, or at the at the three hundred

710
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:47.719
and thirty three years from the beginning of the Salem

711
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:54.239
witch trials. Exodus twenty three to one Exodus twenty three

712
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.320
to one, thous shall not rise or raise a false report,

713
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.239
Put not thine hand with the wicked, to be an

714
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:08.679
unrighteous witness. Do not raise a false report. I don't

715
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:11.280
care if you're talking about Beyonce. I don't care if

716
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:15.840
you're talking about Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga. I can just

717
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.320
go name every I can start with. You can go

718
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:22.039
all the way back to Ozzy Osbourne Kiss. It doesn't

719
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:26.320
matter that I can go from old to new musical acts.

720
00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:29.480
Christians have been lying about musical artists, I don't know

721
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:33.159
forever behind the pulpit. They said lies about the Beatles,

722
00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:36.480
they said lies about Elvis Presley, lies, and you just

723
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:40.320
go on and not Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne,

724
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:44.880
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, lies, lies, misrepresentations, And you know what,

725
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.159
nobody in the church stinking cares. They don't care if

726
00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:52.920
it's true, lie, lie, false, accusation, false, Who cares if

727
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:55.480
it destroys their career? Who cares if it hurts them?

728
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:57.800
Because we're doing it in the name of Jesus. We

729
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.840
care about Jesus. And you don't stink in care about

730
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.159
truth or anybody other than you're stinking supposed care for

731
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:11.000
doctrine impurity. Well, when your supposed concern for doctrine impurity

732
00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:15.599
means you destroy people's lives, because of half truths, misrepresentations

733
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:17.840
and false accusations that maybe you need to look in

734
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.159
the stink and mirror because what needs to be cleaned

735
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:27.960
is yourself. I get sick of it. And we did

736
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.440
an entire episode where there was some pastor ooh, who

737
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:35.360
Taylor Swift and oh this represents this and it's satanic

738
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:39.119
and it's this, and it's like and it completely lied

739
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:43.000
and misrepresented everything that was going on. And that concert

740
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:49.280
performance of Taylor Swift we saw this with Beyonce was Illuminati, Illuminati, Illuminati, Illuminati, Illuminati.

741
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:54.960
Even Toby Mack from DC Talk Christian artist. I can't

742
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:57.000
remember the name of the album, but it had like

743
00:47:57.239 --> 00:47:58.760
a picture of the eye and they were like, oh,

744
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.840
that's the all seeing eye of a Toby Mack is

745
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:09.039
even Illuminati. Accuse accusations, accusations, accusations, accusations, fraudulent misinformation, half truths,

746
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:11.960
and pastors will stand behind the pulpit share this stuff,

747
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.400
lie of people. You know what, Nobody do Pastors who

748
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.320
do that ever get in trouble. Do they even have

749
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:19.199
to come back and apologize. They don't have to come

750
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:24.480
back and apologize. Nobody cares. Now, dare he say something

751
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:30.440
negative about I don't know things Christians like. If he

752
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:33.960
says something maybe not quite accurate about I don't know

753
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:36.480
even if it's accurate, to probably get in trouble. But

754
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.119
if it's accurate about Donald Trump, oh they'll get mad.

755
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:41.760
Oh you can say anything you want about Nancy Pelosi,

756
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:43.719
or you can say anything you want about Hillary Clinton

757
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:48.199
or any anybody else. That's okay, but make sure you

758
00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:51.559
don't see anything negative about our favorite politicians and our

759
00:48:51.679 --> 00:49:03.159
favorite Christian celebrity. The dangers of false accusations and bearing

760
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.000
false witness. It happened in Salem, and it's been going

761
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:10.320
on in the church forever. We attack and we accuse.

762
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:16.480
Number three. These are the reasons we need to study

763
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:19.519
what happened at Salem. The role of fear and mass

764
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:24.280
hysteria and distorting judgment. It was fear and mass hysteria.

765
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.000
That's that's what impacted how they were making their judgment.

766
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.119
The trials were driven by fear, fear of the unknown,

767
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.199
fear of the supernatural, fear of divine judgment. Mass hysteria

768
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:40.760
blinded people to reason, mercy and justice, leading to tragic outcomes. Look,

769
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.519
I've seen pastors so and still fear into parents that oh,

770
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.800
your kids could have this album in their room and

771
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:50.400
they're gonna become demon possessed. And the parents are like, ah,

772
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:52.920
go run into the room, open the door. Where's your music?

773
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.519
We gotta burn this album. We're gonna get Satan out

774
00:49:55.519 --> 00:49:57.960
of this house. You're like, what you want to slap

775
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:01.079
them in the face. What are you doing? You're losing

776
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:08.360
your mind. You're being manipulated. It's fear, superstition, paranoia, insanity.

777
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:13.320
There's no reason, there's no logic, there's no wisdom. Oh

778
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:17.159
I remember when Oh Dungeons and Dragons? Remember that? Oh man,

779
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.519
I remember when that controversy was spreading. Oh, if you

780
00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:23.119
play Dungeons and Dragons, you're gonna be possessed by a demon.

781
00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:25.480
Oh my goodness, we got to burn these board games.

782
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:26.880
We gotta get rid of this. This is the end

783
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.159
of the world. Just stop it. Every single and it's

784
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:32.639
almost always parents who have no clue what they're even

785
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:35.880
talking about. They just heard some pastors say, ooh, this

786
00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:39.199
musical artists is a part of the illuminati. Oh no,

787
00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:41.159
my kids can't listen to it. It's the end of

788
00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:48.119
the world. Fear should never be the foundation for your

789
00:50:48.119 --> 00:50:50.679
decision making as a Christian, and not in the church,

790
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:54.159
not in your personal life. The Christian life should be

791
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:57.719
marked by faith, should be marked by discernment, should be

792
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:03.480
marked by wisdom, not insane panic. The Church must guard

793
00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:06.880
against fear based movements that rely on emotion rather than

794
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:10.880
sound theology and biblical truth. Whenever you're getting all worked

795
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.320
up and it's like this, just stop it, stop stop it,

796
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:23.280
and you still see these videos sometimes all over YouTube

797
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:27.239
and Christian YouTube. Ooh exposed, I saw the I saw

798
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:31.800
just the other day. Ooh exposed. How many of our

799
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:36.920
top celebrities today are actual witches? Ooh oh no, remember

800
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:39.199
when there was all of the panic. Disney movies are

801
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:42.920
sending subliminal messages. Oh no, don't watch The Little Mermaid,

802
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:46.119
don't watch this. It's satanic, it's evil. They're trying to

803
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:48.519
get into your kid's brain. They're gonna make them evil.

804
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:51.239
Your kid was born evil for crying out out stop

805
00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:53.760
with your nonsense. And it was like, we're not gonna

806
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:55.719
watch Disney movies. Oh no, we're not gonna watch this.

807
00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:57.760
Oh no, don't look here, No, don't don't do don't

808
00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:00.679
poke out my eyes, rip off my ears, say is everywhere,

809
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:10.800
it's gonna get inside of me. It's the same hysteria,

810
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:15.199
same craziness. And then we move on to the next thing.

811
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:17.800
All of a sudden, we forget that. Oh wait, the

812
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:19.920
Disney was the greatest threat to the world. Oh no,

813
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.199
now it's the illuminati. Oh wait, wait, wait, now it's this.

814
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:24.599
Oh wait, now now it's this. Oh wait, now it's this.

815
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.079
Oh wait, now it's this. We just wait for the

816
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:29.000
next thing to be fearful of, and then guess what

817
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.199
we have to do. We gotta go buy these books,

818
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:33.360
and we got to buy these DVDs, and we got

819
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.800
to attend these conferences so that we can be equipped

820
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:40.679
and we can be prepared to defend ourselves. Oh it's LGBTQ.

821
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:44.239
Oh it's transgenderism. It's always the next thing that's out

822
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:47.159
to destroy you. I gone. I have gone through so

823
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:50.480
many of these cycles as a Christian. What am I

824
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:52.840
supposed to be fearful of today? What are we supposed

825
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.599
to be worried about today? What's going to destroy us today?

826
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:58.159
What books do I need to buy today? What conference

827
00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:00.400
do I need to sign up for? What to do?

828
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:03.239
Because they're all coming out to get me? Just leave

829
00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:05.639
you in a perpetual state of fear, a perpetual state

830
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.960
of concern. And guess what, it's always weird. You're supposed

831
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:10.719
to be in a perpetual state of fear and concern,

832
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:13.280
and there's always someone there who's there to help you,

833
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:16.800
only if you buy their book for nineteen ninety nine

834
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:19.239
or sign up for their conference for fifty dollars. And

835
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:21.320
it weird that the people who come to help you

836
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:26.719
always will help you if you give them money. All

837
00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:31.480
of their helps are always behind a paywall. You don't

838
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:35.639
catch on to the game you're being played. Now, Am

839
00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:38.800
I saying there's never a situation to be concerned. I'm

840
00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:45.159
not saying that. But it's concern based off thoughtful, considerate

841
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:53.360
rational thought and consideration, not fear, not paranoia, not false accusations,

842
00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:59.480
not half truths, not misrepresentations, not fraudulent information, And so

843
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.000
many times all of the accusations turn out to be

844
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:06.480
half truths misinformation, are just absolute fraudulent bearing false witness.

845
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.280
And the Christians who get caught up in it, the

846
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:11.159
Christians never come back and apologize. And guess what, You're

847
00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:12.800
not going to get a refund for all the money

848
00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:14.880
you spent and getting all the things you need to

849
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:18.119
supposedly defend yourself so that Satan won't come creeping into

850
00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:26.000
your room at two in the morning. The church must

851
00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:30.280
guard against a fear based movement. We must not rely

852
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:33.280
on our emotion. We must rely on sound theology and

853
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.880
biblical truth. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,

854
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:39.559
by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be

855
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:42.760
made known to God Philippians four to six. Stop being

856
00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:47.840
filled with worry and anxiety and fear and panic because

857
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:51.519
religious leaders give you that so they can sell you

858
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:56.079
the supposed medicine. And in many cases they're selling you

859
00:54:56.119 --> 00:54:59.280
a medicine for something that's not even really much of

860
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:04.119
a threat. Because your biggest threat in your Christian life

861
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:06.920
is not all of these things everyone points out. It's

862
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:11.000
what's inside of you. It's called your sinful nature. The

863
00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:13.280
thing that's gonna cause you the greatest problems in your

864
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:15.639
Christian life, the thing that's going to cause you to stumble,

865
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.360
the thing that's going to cause you to fall, the

866
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:20.320
things that's going to cause you to be unforgiving, unloving,

867
00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:24.320
filled with lust, hate, wrath, gluttony, slothfulness, and all every

868
00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.159
other kind of sin. It's coming from inside the house.

869
00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:30.599
It's coming inside of you. It's not Netflix, it's not Hollywood,

870
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:33.159
it's not the Illuminati, it's not a team of Satanists.

871
00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:36.239
It's not rock music. It's not rap music. It's not

872
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:40.000
Taylor Swift. It's inside of you. That's where the problem

873
00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:52.239
has always been and always will be. So why should

874
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.239
we study the Salem witch trials Because the danger of

875
00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:02.400
religious extremism and misrepresentation and misinter pmtation of scriptures number two,

876
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.679
The dangers of false accusations and bearing false witness number three,

877
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.719
The role of fear and mass hysteria and distorting judgment

878
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:13.280
number four, the misuse of spiritual warfare and an over

879
00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:17.440
emphasis on the devil. The Puritan leaders in Salem were

880
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:22.920
obsessed with the idea that Satan was actively working inside

881
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:30.239
the church. While spiritual warfare may be real, they failed

882
00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:34.920
to balance this belief with biblical discernment grace, leading to

883
00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:39.440
wrong convictions. But it basically started, Satan is inside this room.

884
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:42.800
Some of you are basically filled with Satan. That you're

885
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.880
The person sitting next to you could be a witch.

886
00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:49.039
The person next to you could have Satan working in them.

887
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:52.360
You can't trust anyone. They're out to get us. Run.

888
00:56:52.639 --> 00:57:02.320
Satan is here. We're all doomed. The Bible acknowledges the

889
00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:04.880
reality of spiritual warfare, but it teaches that we should

890
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:07.920
focus on Christ, not be consumed by fear of the devil.

891
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:18.320
Obsession with finding supposed hidden evil secret societies leads to paranoia, division,

892
00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:27.719
and typically accusing innocent people of wrong doing. James four

893
00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:32.199
seven says, submit yourselves to God, resist the devil, and

894
00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:34.920
he will flee from you. We start with our submission

895
00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:36.920
to God. And when we submit to God, then we

896
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:41.039
submit to God. And hopefully our rationality are thinking, not

897
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:45.199
bearing false witness, not being consumed with fear and anxiety

898
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:51.920
and worry in paranoia. So why do we need Why

899
00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:54.400
does the church today need to study the Salem witch trials?

900
00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:57.559
Number one because the danger of religious extremism and misrepresentation

901
00:57:57.599 --> 00:57:59.400
of scripture. Not only was that going on in the

902
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.679
sixteen hundred, it's still going on today. Number two, The

903
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:04.760
dangers of false accusations and bearing false witness, Same thing

904
00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.360
still going on in the church today. Number three, the

905
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.599
role of fear and Massysterian distorting judgment. Same thing goes

906
00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:13.480
on today. Number four the misuse of spiritual warfare and

907
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:15.920
no for emphasis on the devil, and number five the

908
00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:20.599
need for justice, mercy, and humility and Christian leadership. Many

909
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:24.119
leaders in Salem failed to show mercy, they didn't show

910
00:58:24.119 --> 00:58:28.360
any humility. Instead, they used their power to crush dissenters

911
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:34.000
and justify cruel punishments. This abuse of spiritual authority hurt

912
00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.280
the church's witness and led to a long lasting distrust

913
00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:41.159
of religious institutions. Just it's crazy when you go to

914
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:45.199
Salem or Boston, there was like you know, there was

915
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:50.119
the headquarters for the Puritans. In many ways, that area

916
00:58:50.199 --> 00:59:00.159
is not the headquarters to Puritanism anymore. Okay, it's long gone.

917
00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:03.880
Christian leaders must model justice, mercy, and humility. The Church

918
00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:08.079
should never rush to judgment, but seek fairness, repentance, and restoration.

919
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.440
Leaders must acknowledge our past failures. All of us have failed,

920
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:18.800
every church, every denomination, every pastor, every Christian, every deacon,

921
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every Sunday school teacher. We are in We not only

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00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.719
have we sinned, we are in sin right now as

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00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:26.840
we speak, and we will continue to be in sin.

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00:59:27.639 --> 00:59:30.480
We need to strive to reflect Christ and how we

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00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:36.239
handle conflict and accusations Micah six'. Eight he has told,

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00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.079
you oh, man what is good and what does The

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00:59:38.119 --> 00:59:42.599
lord require of? You but to do justice and to love,

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00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:48.480
kindness and to walk humbly with Your. God The salem

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00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:52.360
witch trials serve as a sobering warning about how, fear

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00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:57.079
how false, accusations how bad, theology and the abuse of

931
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:04.039
power Corrupts christian. Community The salem witch trials are a

932
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:10.719
warning to you to me how, fear how false, accusations

933
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.519
how bad, theology and how the abuse of power corrupts

934
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.159
The christian. Community, so As, christians what can we? Do

935
01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:23.800
what should we? Do we must pursue truth and justice

936
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:29.559
and all things we have to avoid hysteria and emotional emotional.

937
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.599
Judgment so we need to pursue truth and. Justice we

938
01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:36.320
need to avoid hysteria and emotional. Judgment we need to

939
01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:43.519
reject fear based theology and fear based. Paranoia we must seek,

940
01:00:43.880 --> 01:00:50.960
Wisdom we must seek, Discernment we must seek. Mercy we

941
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:52.719
need to try to ensure that all of us that

942
01:00:52.800 --> 01:01:01.719
we reflect humility and grace in our. Lives so what

943
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:04.360
do we do As christians when we Consider? Salem we

944
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.840
have to become dedicated to pursuing truth and justice and

945
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:14.440
all things, truth not, misrepresentations not false. Accusations we need

946
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:18.760
to avoid hysteria and emotional. Judgment we must reject fear

947
01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:22.960
based theology and. Paranoia we must seek, wisdom, discernment and.

948
01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:26.400
Mercy and we must ensure that we reflect humility and

949
01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:28.039
grace to the best of our. Ability are we going

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01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:30.320
to do any of these things? Correctly, no we're gonna fall,

951
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:32.559
short but we should pursue. THEM i didn't say we

952
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:37.440
would achieve, this but we pursue. It and if you AND,

953
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:39.639
i and if your kids and your family and your

954
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:43.199
church will learn from The Salem Witch, trials the, church

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01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:47.719
you me as, individuals hopefully we can guard ourselves against

956
01:01:47.760 --> 01:02:04.199
making the same stupid mistakes. Go my journey into The

957
01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:08.960
Salem Witch trials was An october, night twenty eighteen for

958
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:13.920
freezing outside. COLD i went to The Salem Witch, museum

959
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:17.199
and my life has never been the same because it

960
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.760
had that profound of an impact on. Me three hundred

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01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:27.360
and thirty three years Ago march the first sixteen ninety,

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01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:30.719
two those first three women that were, accused that's where they're,

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01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:34.440
interrogated that's where they're, investigated that's where they were. EXAMINED

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01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:40.159
i gave you kind of an introduction to The Salem Witch.

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01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:42.079
TRIALS i kind of give you a. SUMMARY i talked

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01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:45.400
about the origins and the. Hysteria remember it started with

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01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:49.280
two young, Girls Betty paris nine years, Old Abigail williams. Eleven,

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01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:56.760
Okay remember they accuse three, Women, titchiba which is the enslaved.

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01:02:56.760 --> 01:03:02.440
Woman they Accused Sarah good who was a, beggar and

970
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:05.400
they Accused Sarah, osborne who was a woman who well

971
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:12.480
didn't follow The puritan. Rules the trials really kind of

972
01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:14.760
began Again march sixteen ninety. TWO i would Say march.

973
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:17.719
First that's when they really start getting. Examined and then

974
01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:22.840
you have The Bridget bishop is the first woman Hung june,

975
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:29.840
tenth sixteen ninety. Two ultimately you have twenty, victims fourteen,

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01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:33.440
women five, men and they were all executed by hanging

977
01:03:33.480 --> 01:03:37.840
except one, Man Giles, corey who's pressed to, death pile

978
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:45.800
rocks on. Him basically, confess, confessed and at The Salem Witch,

979
01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.400
trials at The Salem Which, museum the Main Salem Which,

980
01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:52.920
museum there's a lot of. Differentness there's two parts of.

981
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:56.239
It there's like these all these, displays and they kind

982
01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:58.599
of take you through it and tell you different things

983
01:03:58.599 --> 01:04:01.559
about the displays and what this, represents and what this

984
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:03.199
represents a little bit about the. Area and then the

985
01:04:03.199 --> 01:04:06.320
other you sit in this large like theater and they

986
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:09.920
kind of act out a little bit about the witch

987
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.880
trials and they talk about Uh, tishuba they talk ABOUT

988
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.639
i think they talk About sarah good there And Sarah,

989
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:20.800
osborne about the girls making the accusations and all of.

990
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:23.920
That and it starts off two, girls these young, girls

991
01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:28.599
and next, thing you, know these men of religious, learning

992
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:33.159
these men of, theology these men of, doctrine the leaders

993
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:38.280
in the, city parents lose their ever living mind because

994
01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:44.159
two girls start acting crazy and the doctors, like this is,

995
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:49.039
witchcraft and they're, like y, know you're, right it's. Witchcraft but,

996
01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:55.159
again doesn't really start. THERE i think there's two. GIRLS

997
01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:00.320
i think there was a reason they decided to, say or,

998
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:02.760
well once the doctor said it was, WITCHCRAFT i think

999
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:04.400
the girls then knew what to. Do AND i think

1000
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:06.480
there's a reason they knew what to. DO i think

1001
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:10.519
it all started In. BOSTON i think that's where it.

1002
01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:14.159
All we have to go back To, boston but we

1003
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:21.360
can't do that right, now there is The salem Witch, Trials, Salem.

1004
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:29.360
Massachusetts Now i've, got like, LITERALLY i got notes and.

1005
01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:35.239
Notebooks HERE i GOT i got pages and pages of

1006
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:39.880
notes and, thoughts And i've got now good thing is

1007
01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:42.199
there Was Before, AI i would have to kind of

1008
01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:44.159
put it. All NOW i can just kind of, say, Hey,

1009
01:05:44.199 --> 01:05:47.719
ai here's, this here's, this here's, this here's, this here's

1010
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:49.880
The can you help me put this all? Together can

1011
01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:53.800
you help me organize? This And ai has been doing

1012
01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:56.239
a lot of help and organizing and shaping a lot of.

1013
01:05:56.280 --> 01:05:59.400
This BECAUSE i got my stuff scattered all over the.

1014
01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:01.480
Place i'm, like, well, okay what about this? Part what

1015
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:08.400
about this? Part and it was it Was ai who

1016
01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:11.320
just gave me a little tidbit about a very famous

1017
01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:16.039
book and that was that was published before The salem

1018
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:18.400
Witch trials and there's a part where It and as

1019
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:20.079
soon as it described it in the, BOOK i was,

1020
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.079
like oh, wait, wait, wait, wait stop right, there, stop

1021
01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.480
stop forget everything. Else we're on to. Something and well

1022
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:29.960
we'll get to that when we. Can all, right thank

1023
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:33.480
you for. Listening, everyone have a Great. MONDAY i hope

1024
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:37.480
that went. WELL i wanted it to be, perfect. RIGHT

1025
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:39.599
i wanted it to be, perfect SO i started to

1026
01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:41.760
have to explain the wind in the. BACKGROUND i don't

1027
01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:44.880
even think the wind was that bad during the, broadcast

1028
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:46.920
SO i probably should have just Went you. Know it

1029
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:52.559
all started In october of twenty. Eighteen it was. COLD

1030
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:55.920
i got in a car AND i left one city

1031
01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:59.800
to drive to another, city, right AND i wanted to

1032
01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:04.159
just start the broadcast that, way BUT i had to

1033
01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:06.440
make a decision on the. Spot you, Know i'm getting

1034
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:09.400
these weather, warnings you, know, hey And i'm, like, well

1035
01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:13.639
it's going to mess everything. Up so, Yeah it's almost

1036
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:15.760
LIKE i could do the presentation. BETTER i KNOW i.

1037
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:17.360
COULD i KNOW i. CAN'T i KNOW i can make

1038
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:21.159
it more, INTERESTING i KNOW i. Can but ALL i

1039
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:23.119
can do is try to give you a LOT i

1040
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:24.480
want you to take away from. It it's not the

1041
01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:28.000
it's not only the history those lessons because those, lessons you,

1042
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:30.000
know you may not liked the WAY i described some of,

1043
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:31.880
that But i've seen a lot of the. Same to,

1044
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:34.719
Me i've seen the same nonsense that happened In salem

1045
01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:38.119
play out in much smaller ways because it doesn't necessarily

1046
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:42.000
always lead to, obviously twenty people. Dying but it's the same,

1047
01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:46.159
insanity the same, chaos the same accusations and craziness and

1048
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:52.079
paranoia and fear and and uh, no no, rationality no, truth, no,

1049
01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:54.440
no it's just. Insane and when you try to talk

1050
01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:56.320
people out of, it you just you just never. Mind

1051
01:07:56.719 --> 01:07:58.760
they always got some reason. Why you just don't get,

1052
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:01.159
It you don't. See and there's people WHO i try

1053
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:04.559
to warn that they're just following a path of vanity

1054
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:08.880
and meaningless and lies and. Conspiracy they never come back and, say,

1055
01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:11.840
WELL i think you're possibly, right because the WAY i was,

1056
01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:14.960
going we should all basically be you, know marked put

1057
01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:17.279
in A fema camp and dad by, now, yeah because

1058
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:20.560
you were buying into fear and political rhetoric and political

1059
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:26.159
manipulation and political. Theater but it's hard for people who

1060
01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:29.920
get pulled in to EVERY i, mean how many of

1061
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:37.640
the people In. SALEM i wonder who actually. Apologized it

1062
01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:41.680
took a long. Time the problem starts In. BOSTON i

1063
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:43.920
don't THINK i think it TOOK i think it was

1064
01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:48.560
nineteen eighty, eight maybe nineteen eighty eight or nineteen ninety.

1065
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:51.800
Eight i'd have to look Where boston finally kind of

1066
01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:56.720
acknowledged what happened. Again boston is really the epicenter in my,

1067
01:08:56.840 --> 01:09:04.800
opinion and look put out by A. Puritan, yeah all,

1068
01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:08.520
right we'll talk more in our next episode as we

1069
01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:10.520
kind of really dig in and try to understand The

1070
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:13.359
salem witch trials to the best of our. Ability thanks for,

1071
01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:15.800
Listening god bless