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The Church once excommunicated mice and rats

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Because when crops fail, the obvious theological solution is to spiritually condemn rodents. Plagued by agricultural destruction, the Church held actual ecclesiastical trials for the offending mice. When the tiny mammals inevitably failed to show up to court to defend themselves, they were officially banished from the Catholic Church, which surely stopped them from eating wheat.

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