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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by jpollock on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:44AM (#22424639)
If it was in the UK, there was a period of time when the monarch was Catholic and burned Protestants at the stake and then the monarch changed and then the Catholics started getting burned. People of the "wrong" religion would have to practice in secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole

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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by whatshisface on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:10PM (#22424940)
And ironically, the people who would be the best off would be the atheists who were willing to pretend to go along with whatever was in control at the time.
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