An example of alteration

In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church did not like anyone practicing magic other than themselves. Christianity is a form of magic in itself. Many of the high level Catholic priests know of secret rituals not generally known to the general public who practice Christianity.

Based on the massive stereotyping and folklore, many people believe witches are these evil people you see in the movies like the wicked witch of the west. What people see portrayed as witches are really black magic practitioners. Most witches practice White Magic. Of coures the Catholic Church didn't want people to know this so that portrayed witches as these evil people who had to be destroyed. After all they could be preying on you, unlike the Catholic Church (har har).

In order to commit mass murder of practitioners of other religions, they had to justify it as a righteous cause, so they changed this clause in the Bible, "thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live" (Exodus 22:18) to "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". So they used the name of God in order to commit their crimes. The original word translated into English is poisoner. There is always some "terrorist" the government has to kill to justify that you need its protection and to continue taking in more money.

To be sure that no one knew that the Catholic Church altered the Bible, they went on a crusade to destroy all copies of the Bible other than their own. This worked for a while.

Interesting to note, that this is how our current President rules. He creates a false reason that justifies righteousnous in starting a war. That is the art of misleading the public to start wars.