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Souperism

Souperism

8 July 2021 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

Taking the Soup - Sermo Humilis

It was during the Irish Potato Famine, of the mid 19th century that the term "taking the soup" or, "souperism" came into common use. From 1845 to 1852, over a million Irish died, and well over a million more fled the country. During that time, several Protestant Bible … [Read more...] about Souperism

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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.