Salem Witch Trials

My daughter is studying The Crucible for English class. This play by Arthur Miller, is about the Salem Witch Trials. In his introduction to the play Miller says this:

However, I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history.

Most awful chapter?? Let’s get this straight. Miller attended a few Communist Party meetings as a younger man and even spoke at these events. So, he had to know something of Stalin’s forced starvation of his own people in Georgia. An estimated 6 million were killed. Now how many people were executed as a result of the Salem Witch Trials?

2000
200
Let’s try 20. 5 more died in prison.

Wow! 25 to 6,000,000. That’s terrible.

Yes, the witch trials were ridiculous, but let’s get real.

Obviously, people hold people who call themselves “Christians” to a higher standard than anyone else because either consciously or subconsciously, they know Christians have high standards. That’s also when people want to speak of “Christian” atrocity they often end up at the Crusades. 1000 years ago. I can give you a more current atrocity. The fact that I know Jesus intimately and yet can still lash out in anger, on occasion.