Exercising Religious Power

• This article basically explains about a judge who had been torturing people to the point of their confession of being a witch learned many things about witchcraft.  He discusses it with a man named Peter of Gruyeres, who had much experience in persecuting witches.  They converse about the severity of a witch’s death. Once you are accused of being a witch, you are stuck as a witch. You’re going to be murdered, but there are ways to make your death less cruel. If you admit to your sins and being a witch, you’ll be murdered, but in the least severe way possible. However, if you don’t admit to being a witch, you’re death will be as cruel as can be imagined. Additionally, from what we learned about the other article, t
  he event is that the priests are creating a system of interrogating citizens who were thought to be participating in other beliefs that could pose as a threat to the church. What I was able to find similar between these two events is the fact that the targets are the civilians believed to have distinct beliefs from their religion. Whoever is against them are considered their enemy, since they pose a threat to their religion and the only way to solve this problem is through death, so the other citizens won't choose to do what the other's did, in order to have a faith like that.