
Episode 196: Bad Seed
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The Origins of the Christian Faith
Before christianity, the slavic people of eastern europe had some pretty unique beliefs. There was a strong belief in the burial of the dead as a wedding ceremony between the deceased and the earth. Another prominent belief was that some dead people were clean and others were unclean. Only the dead who were deemed clean were allowed to be buried in the churchyard. And if that rule was broken, bad things could happen. If sinful people were honored by their community, god was believed to deliver wrath through the weather.
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