Title: We're All Witches...
Product review: SALEM WITCH TRIALS takes hyper-religiosity / pompous, self-righteousness, and mixes it w/ mass hysteria, paranoia, and ignorance. Toss in huge amounts of superstition and gossip, and you've got a lethal combination! This film shows quite vividly how religion, ANY religion, can never be used as a substitute for government. Like the Taliban today, the Salem Puritans utilized "religious authority" to enable them to destroy those they considered "unclean" or "wicked" (or simply didn't like), while calling their own homicidal insanity, "the will of God". SWT is an excellent portrayal of religion-gone-mad, using one of America's most shameful events as a template. This is a cautionary tale of historic horror. Though a dramatization about what occurred in the early 1690s, it's message certainly resonates in this or any other age. Watch and learn...
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