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anosognosic:

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association-of-free-people:

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neeetsocks:

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association-of-free-people:

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s34b4ss:

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scorntrooper:

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Hands up if you\u2019re still mad that Christianity took over most of the world, displacing the ancient local religions and destroying records of them so we\u2019ll never know the details about them

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Lol get bodied pagans

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Sounds great. Bring back slavery too I guess.

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w-whats the second pic about

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That\u2019s the wicker man. It was a druidic ritual practiced in Gaul by the celts in what is now northern France. They would build a giant wicker man and fill it with a quota for human sacrifice and burn the whole thing to the ground, live folks and all. The quota was usually met with criminals, but if there were not enough criminals to meet the quota innocents were burned. Julius Caesar noted the practice in his Commentaries on the Gallic War.

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KILLING ME WON\u2019T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMN HONEY

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\nah yes, Christianity, the religion that would certainly never ritually venerate human sacrifice or assert its preeminence through spectacular public execution by fire", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_pq4lw38K121tunj2m_540_5e419ee51111.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 296, "thumbnail_height": 231}