IF you meant the Protestant Reformation, you might have said so instead of embracing all the schisms of the CHristian world, some of which have been absurd, predicated on interpretative differences in metaphysics such as UNity versus Trinity and whether or not the Holy Ghost was filtered, mentholated or what.

As for making my case, I am not making any assertions here in the first place, but merely responding to your assertion that there is a Being surrounding our existence who has precise intentions for us and whose instructions can be found in a 2500-year old anthology of mystical writings committed to parchment by people for whom a wheelbarrow would be emerging technology. I just don't see any grounds for that assertion and I think to justify it requires bending over backwards intellectually into abnormal postures of rationalization. Stoning adultresses and killing witches are two stupid examples that make your assertion untrenable, to my view.
And let me add that your explanation that witches were tried in civil court has little merit -- it was founded on scripture and would have had no merit or impetus without the underlying collision between polytheistic paganism and the Church of Rome.

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