“Church is the enemy of liberty.”
Gage was a abolitionist, a sufragette, an atheist, a crusader for the right to divorce, and also a member of the Mohawk Nation for the record. But maybe most interesting for our purposes, she a staunch advocate of witchcraft: Not of the kind of witchcraft people sell today, but of the historical myth of devilish and powerful women, writing, “The witch was in reality the profoundest thinker of those ages. The persecution against witches was in reality an attack upon intellect at the hands of the church; as knowledge has ever been power, the church feared its use in woman’s hands, and leveled its deadliest blows at her.” “Church,” she wrote “Is the enemy of liberty and progress, and the chief means of enslaving woman’s consciousness and reason.”
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