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Muggletonians insisted God was exactly six feet tall

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While most major faiths prefer their supreme beings to be formless and infinite, this obscure English sect firmly disagreed. They vehemently argued that the creator of the entire vast universe was a physical male measuring exactly six feet in height.

Muggletonians insisted God was exactly six feet tall
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