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There’s a ton of evidence (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/religiouscringe@midwest.social
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Hi, I am interested, could you provide some source for that? I sadly couldn't find anything with a quick google search

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I couldn't find the passage, but Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire had a quote along the lines of, "there were so many relics of the holy cross claimed in churches across Europe that one could assemble them into a small forest".

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