hmm... coral... first off, i supprt you... i grieve and have grieved at the same time as you, over the same troubling beliefs that some were wrongly persecuted, enslaved, of downtrodden, made to walk rivers of tears... i share the same remorse for all this and more than has been mentioned...

a good witch, imo, loves the earth anfd all that is in it.... a good witch believes in the power of dreams and visions..... and uses those tolls for self and other healing...

a lot is misunderstood about witches, and also, i believe, there is a lot misunderstood about Christianity.....

there is such a thing as human social evolution.... people can learn from the past, tho, it is obvious some havent...

but a good witch would see the good future and would work towards its good creation... because my friend, in the heart of it, is the image of God.....