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your cities lie in dust
Shaking the dust from the feet was a practice of pious Jews during New Testament times. When Jesus called his twelve disciples, he told them to perform the same act against the non-believing Jews.
In the early Latter Day Saint movement of the 19th century, it was practiced much as recorded in the New Testament, but later fell out of use. Other Christian groups and organizations typically do not see this as a practice that should be followed, or they see it as something not to be taken literally.
American anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter wrote the seminal work on the topic of the collapse of complex societies with The Collapse of Complex Societies (University of Oxford Press, 1988). In an interview, he stated:
To summarize, though somewhat an oversimplification, the...