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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 851634" data-attributes="member: 5724">By the tone of your question I'm assuming here that you believe witch burning was an injustic that could be prevented through good clerical use of magic and divination.  NOT that the witch is evil and deserves it. Which would be my first way of incorporating witch burning.You can have a good cleric who belongs to a predominatly neutral chuch who is forced to follow his church's doctrine and hence, punish those whom another authority has deemed a witch. The doctrine of the church could preclude the use of divinations on subjects to reduce the number of church vrs. other authority conflicts.You could also simply have a good church using witch burnings to futher their goals. Good doesn't mean always and only doing good, it can also mean mostly doing good and ocassionally doing evil because that single evil promotes the greater good.from MMS:WE A religious institution of the magical medieval period has manyfacets to consider. Religions deal with spiritual matters thatsurpass this world, but are also tied into land ownership, feudalobligations, lords, and kings. Though the idea of religion beingseparate from worldly concerns is certainly a popular one, ina magical medieval society, nothing is separate from feudalism.excellent question!joe b.</blockquote>