This will come as a surprise, but I will perhaps come to tribesman's defense here. Anyone who is religious, and has a problem with this sentence seems not sufficiently religious to me. Unless maybe they are polytheists, or Jains or something.
People seem to forget that the penalty (as supposedly handed to humans directly by god) for violating 7 of the 10 commandments is... death. Stealing, adultery, dishonoring your parents, even keeping the sabbath... all carry a death penalty. When yahoos want the 10 commandments in courtrooms, do they realize that the penalty for cheating on your spouse is death (for both parties)? Silly is silly. Sorry.
Similarly, if the very notion of witchcraft is absurd to someone that believes in magical books, raising dead people, or countless other unsubstantiated magical events in any number of holy books... all I can say is that whatever algorithm you use to find witchcraft absurd, I can apply directly to any other magical belief with virtually no changes and pronounce them just as silly.
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