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But one of the Greeks, correctly surmising the contrivance of the supposed god, not only confuted him by means of the self-same parrots [...] the Greek caught a number of the parrots and re-taught them to say "Apsethus caged us and made us say, 'Apsethus is a god.'" And when the Libyans heard the recantation of the parrots, they all assembled together of one accord and burnt Apsethus alive.

Fascinating book. It answers questions I had on the founding of the Catholic Church. The lack of footnotes and references needed to backup the premise of the book. It does fit well with what we know of the Church beginning.