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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

DetlefK

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2. Some funny trivia on relics:

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 05:23 AM

Aug 2016

(I wish I would remember this better.) In the Middle-Ages there was a pious christian guy who went out on a mission to root out and unmask all fake relics. Those fake relics are giving Christianity a bad name!!! The church quickly shut him down. Selling relics was a huge market.

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_medieval_relic_trade/

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