So much for my arguing without re reading the article The article says why the relentless focus on witchcraft in the Inquisition when this was not a major fault of the Inquisition There may have been faults with the Inquisition and heresy but witchcraft was not a major problem The church basically never believed in witchcraft Joan was tried for heresy though the English thought she was a witch The latter couldn t be helped The heresy trial had been held Not a strawdog when the opposition is saying that witchcraft is a major problem It s probably more of a fallacy to say the Inquisition killed a lot of people for heresy which was just non existent freedom of speech and BTW killed a lot of witches too and we don t believe in witches anymore regardless of your answers about heresy