Sentences with phrase «nailed to the cross until»

I'm positive I have read some time back that the «law of tithing» had remained dead and nailed to the cross until a few centuries ago when the young catholic church brought it back as a means of fleecing the flock.

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Hypothetically speaking, what if some people flog you with a cat of 9 tails whip until you have so much flesh ripped off that you are a living, breathing, walking zombie and then make you carry a massive cross about 5 miles and then nail you to that cross?

For example, thieves were nailed to wooden crosses until they died from dehydration or loss of blood; men and women were herded into dens of hungry lions, to be mauled or eaten alive; some were burned alive.