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Almost 500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his famous 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. There's no doubt that a lot of serious prayers were prayed and good sermons preached in the Castle Church where Luther posted his theses. But over the years a lot of holy crap had collected there: by 1518 there were more than 17,000 'holy relics' in the church, including such treasures as the body of one of the babies Herod had killed in Bethlehem, straw from Jesus' manger, a piece of Moses' burning bush, a sample of the milk of...
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