No, salt is not a slime activator. You need borax.
Luther modified religious service in terms of stripping down the ability to make money from the perspective of the church; which at the time was making a lot of money through selling tickets that would abolish sins off of people for example. He also made the church less about money and more about religious service.
The intensive indoctrination of the American people led to a regression of social reforms.
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