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490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?

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Do I Really Believe These Curse's?

In the tenth through twelfth centuries in france, there was a very strong religious belief. The curse would have acted to insure the property rights of the clericsye exactly. Historians at least claim that strong men were deterred from plundering claric's property as a result of these curses. It is possible for you to interpret it in light of what the curse said. So that was centuries ago, when the world was somewhat less orderly and much poorer. And then, as we become wealthier, we're able substitute away from reliance on the superstition towards reliance on more secular, traditional means of protecting property rights. But some relics of these superstitions remain. For example, bible swearing

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