"Jerry" <jer### [at] acusdedu> wrote in message
news:jerry-471749.13340924012001@news.povray.org...
> This is not to say that Christians do not believe that people worship
> Satan. The witch madnesses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
> were against hordes of imagined worshippers of Satan. You ought to be
> able to find a ton of woodcuts with images of this form of Satan
> worship, as imagined by the persecutors. Anti-witch books were big
> business then. See Malleus Maleficarum (Heinrich Kramer, James
> Sprenger), Demonolatry (Nicholas Remy), and Compendium Maleficarum
> (Francesco Maria Guazzo) for some of the more popular examples.

    Well, this also is most likely due to the depiction of the god in the
form of the great horned one.  If I where Christian, I can see how this
would be construed as worshiping satan..  :-)

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