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The Idols of Jonah

11 February 2021 By David Trounce 2 Comments

The Idols of Jonah - Sermo Humilis

It has been said that if you want to know what someone's idol is, you don't ask them what they love most. Instead, you ask them what their worst nightmare is. What is it that, if taken away, would make you say, “I wish I were dead”? Jonah was a bible believing prophet who saw … [Read more...] about The Idols of Jonah

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Dagon, Idolatry, Jonah

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.