What comes around goes around

Dat smug look on Queen Europe's face, though... Haha :-)

The start of the big witch hunts were less "we will give the people what they want," and more "hey, we can take their stuff."

@ShoggothOnTheRoof Yeah, because peasant farmers had so *very* much wealth to take

@centerflag982 If you were a medieval peasant than taking your neighbor's farm meant you had more land to grow crops upon and therefore more money.

Backfired

@Bhekizizwe Literally XD

BURN IT WITH FIRE

Awesome comic, saying that from a Christian point of view.

I wish Queen Europe was holding a Harry Potter style magic wand behind her back in the last panel. :P

@Hinoron Same!!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that women could be accused of being a witch just because she was too intelligent because back in those days a woman wasn't allowed to study or learn how to read or write so if a woman had a lot of knowledge she was a witch 'cause "she was worshipping Satan and he gave her that knowledge"
Just stupid, and it didn't happen just with women but with men too. Religions gain power while they keep people stupid and with fear. That's thw way they work since prehistoric times

@AngryMetalhead religion is a poison basically

@AngryMetalhead That's ... not entirely accurite.

During the European Middle Ages only the clergy and (sometimes) the nobility knew how to read or write. Neither men nor women were literate for the most part, but there was nothing stopping a noblewoman from learning how to read or write.

"Religion makes people stupid" doesn't make any sense considering all the evidence to the contrary. In the middle ages, with the Roman Empire gone, the only people writing anything down or making copies of existent manuscripts were Monks. Even today Religious Institutions run a number of educational institutions which produce intelligent people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology

Religion and philosophy exist to answer a seemingly unanswerable question - why are we here? Science and hard numbers can answer the how, but not the why.

@AngryMetalhead i heard that if they live up to a certain age, they are witches, am I wrong?

I don't think they would be called heathens more like pagan worshipers but heathens is easier to write out

First time seeing Queen Europe.

@herocheese same. she looks cute.

@VanessaLeskinen She does. Also, I find it hilarious that King Europe looks like Brother France.

The witch crusades were also about the church losing power as people were going to see herbalists (often women) to cure illnesses rather than going to church to pray so the church was losing power and money (through tithing).