Sample from my Philisophical work.

I believed we all thought that the witch hunts were over. Once every one was required to read The Crucible in high school, I believed that we all learned that the scape-goating of ‘witches’ was a bad thing. We should have seen how this was nothing more that a grand scare with no real backing or rational behind it.

Those that were found and tried as witches were simply people who were not the common crowd. They were loners or eccentrics. Not people wishing to cause harm to children, like it was claimed they were. We all know that the children who were acting out these atrocities were simply children looking for excitement. When they saw how much power they had they took it for all it was worth. If some one came against them they turned the authorities (who now hung on their each and every word) after them.

But this still happens today. One would think that 400 years later the ousting of witches would no longer apply. Especially in a country that founds itself on freedom; especially when freedom of religion is one of the main points it is supposed to stand behind. How can one say its people are free to practice any religion they deem fit when the instruments of their choosing are used against them as evidence in criminal cases? Even the books one chooses to read or to use in religious practice can be used against them with the moniker of “It was strange and out of place so we took it in as evidence”?

This is wrong!

The Satanic Bible is a book of philosophy with one of its main points being “Freedom to the responsible”. This simply means that those who can handle freedom should have it but those who can not handle themselves need to be kept in check. Why should “authority” hold this book against some one? Is that not one of the main points of the United States? Is this not a large part of “The American Dream”?

So when someone has a copy of The Satanic Bible at the scene of a crime, should they be punished more than any one else having committed the same crime? I believe any non-religiously bias ethicist would say “Absolutely not!” But that is not what is commonly found to happen. Charges get grossly blown out of proportion and evidence changed to further damn those involved. All this happens in the name of “Stopping Satanic Crime” and those who use Satan as a tool for criminology, even when this is far from the actual/factual case.