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Once upon a time, a man was being persecuted by the government for his religion.

Once upon a time, a man was being persecuted by the government for his religion. The religion wasn't Christianity; it involved animal sacrifice. His neighbors found this practice quite untoward and ugly, and they'd created a bunch of regulations designed to target his specific religious practices. Other kinds of animal killings were legal, but not the kind he did. What made things complicated for this man was that, because of the animal sacrifices, he had certain powers that would enable him to strike back at his persecutors. At the very least, he could cause their children to sicken and…

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