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  • n  the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)
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  • The hard truth about the Cold War
    We Americans like to sidle around the truth nowadays, which we do by labeling ourselves relativists. Like Pontius Pilate, we ask “What is truth?” with the implication being that truth exists only in the eye of the beholder.
    July 17, 2013 - Smoky Mountain News

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