Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than tha…

Edward Gibbon
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1840). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, p.100
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. ✨ Edward Gibbon (1840). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, p.100

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