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It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
David Eddings
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1931 to 2009; Wikidata Q354888, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354888 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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