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They went to their deaths without taking it back.
In plain words
They went to their deaths without taking it back. The point is narrow: people die sincerely for false stories all the time, but almost no one dies for a story they know they made up, when one sentence would end it.
The mechanism
THE MANUFACTURERS WOULD HAVE KNOWN — anyone will die for a story they were told; almost no one dies for a story they know they made up, when one sentence ends the process
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE WITNESSES AND THE TURN 44 to 312 AD
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus, 1 Clement
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