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Voltaire2

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8. perhaps, but a couple of hundred years later,

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #7)

Fri Apr 17, 2020, 05:41 PM

Apr 2020

the eastern roman empire went through a whole loss of confidence shitstorm of 'why does god hate us' after the muslim-arab invasions reduced their empire to a city state. So whatever the original motive was, by then they were it seems all true believers.

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