“ Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together? ”
When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
~ Charlie Jane Anders
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.