Ian Robertson Quote.

“Between the 13th and the 17th centuries, the European clergy caused as many as half a million people to be tortured and murdered on the grounds of witchcraft and heresy. The victims ranged from old, widowed women to political and social deviants—Jews, Muslims, heretics, and critics of the political and religious leaders of the time. Fear of witchcraft helped to divert the attention from the real source of many of their problems—corrupt popes and tyrannical princes—by shifting the responsibility to imaginary demons in human form.”
Ian Robertson.