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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
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“I mean [ __ ] man the the first and most his like one of the first influential works of his modern scholarship is the decline and fall of the Roman Empire It's a whole book about why a society fell apart”
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“Then there are religious zealots, I would use even stronger terms, who use the Book of Joshua, which is 2700 years ago, that said, well, God gave us everything from the river in Egypt, meaning the Nile to the Euphrates.”
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“And I actually think about that a lot from, you know, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. Actually, your episode on Rome was fantastic. People should go listen to that.”
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“I think we should replace some of the history books with Marjorie Taylor Greene's book, but I think specifically we should go for like Edward Gibbon's Rise and Fall of—yeah!”
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“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—just throw Marjorie Taylor Greene's book in for like volume three of that [__] classic scholarly work! Yeah, see who notices!”
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“It’s not in there, specifically. Keep reading Romans 13.”
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“yeah cause unknown the epidemic of sudden deaths in 2021 and 2022 Edward Dow yeah yeah died after first vaccine dose dies at hospital football died on the field and none of this was reported”
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“so the orthodox tradition the catholic tradition aren't that different even though they split in the 11th century over a diphthong as gibbon points out”