The fact there are groups that use religious texts as part of mind control or population control ought not be construed as justification for hatred toward innocent bystanders. There are people who teach the scriptures in a twisted, self-serving way. There are those who simply set up 'churches' for gathering money and cute females to themselves. But does that justify hatred toward those who do not?
Many have come to the conclusion that most major US denominations (especially since the 1950s/1960s marked the beginning of a unique kind of Europe-based PSYOPS against America) have been undermined and influenced by American and European intelligence agencies and also by secret societies. Rome in particular despised orthodox Christianity because of the post-Crucifixion effects on oracles, etc. When it was explained that the presence of orthodox Christians were obstructing the flow or workings of their spells or oracles they became enraged and set out to massacre them.
Consider that as a matter of fact, from nearly cradle to grave people most everywhere are threatened "if you do or don't do this or that you will go to jail" (HINT: 'jail' and 'hell' rhyme in Spanish, they may very well be the same word--see also 'gaol' and 'goal') or "if you don't do this or that you will be fined/charged/arrested" or "if you leave/betray the group you'll be killed". Is truth and consequences always necessarily witchcraft? What lawful system is being undermined when the consequence of ones actions is made known ahead of time? We all know and even the scriptures suggest at times that imposters and poseurs would rise with the intent to deceive many. But who having wisdom knows the truth and tries to blame the innocent just due to flaky mental associations? Who lacks knowledge that most televangelists had connections to secret societies? Its obvious: there are those who have pretended to be orthodox (bible-based) Christians just for the sake of making people hate orthodox Christians. Similarly, there have been those waiving a USA flag and carrying out atrocities for the purpose of turning hatred and angst toward the USA when the average American had nothing to do with the atrocities.
P.S. #1 - I wouldn't necessarily refer to the engineer woman's used of #9 Bask as witchcraft.
P.S. #2 - Witches and sorcerers have been involved in counterfeiting and undermining orthodox (note the lower-case 'o') Christianity for thousands of years because they see power in ritual and minds massing together. The irony is when some (even some who refer to themselves as Gnostic) hate what they believe to be orthodox Christianity when its really heretical Gnosticism that they hate (i.e. they hate the affect the infiltrators have had on orthodox Christianity) but can't see the forest for all of those trees.
P.S. # 3 - During the judgement of jerusalem, it is widely held that bodies of many who were slain were thrown into the trash fires outside of the city.
P.S. # 4 - People seem to love 'spiritual interpretations'. But how about this one: What if the significance of being circumcised by the 8th day is really this: those who aren't on the Yehoshua/Joshua/Jesus (regenerative->internal circumcision) Ark (note: Noah's Ark had only one door rather than many doors)--who aren't circumcised in the heart---once the Biblical 8,000 timeline is reached or once the end of the 8th day will, simply, be out of time or alternatively by the end of the 8th day. As in the 'world' is given those many years to get on board the Ark but those societies, families or households (of Abraham? of Adam? or?) who refuse to get on the Ark will be out of time once the survey in time reaches the 8,000th year or at least by the time 'the 8th day' is over. If ~0AD marked the start of day six, then perhaps ~2,000 A.D. was the start of day 8. Or.... if 70AD marked start of day 6, then perhaps 2070 A.D. would mark the start of day 8.