The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry. (Tertullian)

The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.

Tertullian

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