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>Daniel then uncovers the ruse (by scattering ashes over the floor of the temple in the presence of the king after the priests have left) and shows that the "sacred" meal of Bel is actually consumed at night by the priests and their wives and children, who enter through a secret door when the temple's doors are sealed.
All those thousands of years of sacrifices. All those poor worshipers of God, bringing of their best flock and crops to God to worship, and for "penance" of their sins. Plundered. Christ dies on the cross, and the penance becomes shekels to the priests whose intercessory doctrine provided the poor with a path to forgiveness and heaven. Their lies have always been. Their doctrines, always false. Your salvation? A gift from God, usurped by deceit.
It's time to wake up.