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“They had been taken in by their betters, sold on a great lie. They had been convinced by well-spoken hypocrites from the Church and Senate that the source of their ills was not a complex tangle of social and economic factors, but rather a simple lack of faith. The secularization of their government. That they had turned away from the light of heaven. It was nonsense, but it was nonsense that was easy to sell.”