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>>930133
Its been shit since 1700.

>>930164
Better than the rest of the Arab world.

>>930133
As someone who has ancestors from there I would really love to know more since I know shamefully little.
>>930169
From the way they manage to mix modernity and tradition Lebanon and Syria are better, sans the political instabilty of course. Lebanon maybe takes it a step too far with westernisation with plastic surgery everywhere. Syria is now messed up beyond belief and going to have to deal with a whole lost generation, and this can fuck up a country more than destroyed infrastructure. From the time I have visited Tunisia I can tell is in this really weird position where they have hypereducated young people but almost nothing to do with them. But the younger generation is cool and the different ethnicities are kinda visible, with typically tanned arabs, now-adult blond colony love children and pale-skinned turkish looking people with straight black hair. There are even a few red heads around. I have no idea where those come from historically.

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>>941067
Peter didn't kill Ananias and Sapphira, God did.

The reason they were killed is not because they didn't give all their gold but because they lied and said they donated all their money from the land sale but in reality had kept some for themselves; they were punished for deceitfully trying to appear more righteous than they were.

>>941099
Nicely put.

Lying to the Holy Spirit is death. The early church found that out quick.

>>941099
the moral of the story is that most christians treat christianity as just another religion. "i do good things, good things happen / i gotta look like a good person"

however christianity is more like a cult in that you are a slave to christ and you act out of gratitude as opposed to self-interest

>>940477
Nein.

Yes, another name for the whole that is greater than the sum of its parts (neurons)

Depends who u ask. I say yea

>(funnily enough, it seems Congress wasn't particularly given preferential treatment)

good fuck them

>Why even bother spending all this money (surely, it was expensive) and drawing up contingency plans in the face of something such as a nuclear attack all for the sake of a ceremonial figure? The monarch would be completely useless; they'd have no real reason to be kept alive besides some cheap sentimentality

I am an American, but I would say if you're not British you wouldn't get it. They really are into that monarch shit, even if it's just for show.

Also, there were many war plans in the US for events such as the invasion of Canada, Mexico, whatever.

The reason for making these plans isn't to use them, but to prepare up and coming trainees and military commanders a chance to get used to planning campaigns and what it entails

Plus, if the situation ever happens, no matter how unlikely, at least someone has put some thought into it at some point, even if just as practice.

>>936488
If you're going to be creating a continuity government after a catastrophic event like a heavy nuclear exchange, you want someone to head it who is separate from the political divisions of the time. Someone with legitimacy to give a government in an extremely difficult a chance of re-exerting control over the country.

Despite there always being British republicans, they've never been a particularly large amount of the population here, in times of crisis people would be much more likely to rally behind the monarch than party political leaders.

>>936502
After a nuclear strike, I doubt there would be anyone left alive to care about the "legitimacy'" of the government: even if there were survivors, the government would be legitimized (in their eyes) were they to restore some semblance of order, infrastructure, law, and aid - with or without a monarch.

>>938688
Mormons are scary

>>938688
Same goes for pretty much any religion. Believers are great in ingoring facts.

I ask the same about Marxism.

Actually scratch that, Marxism is pretty much dead except for a handful of low IQ academics.

> I just don't understand how something can come from nothing.
Atheism never claimed that.

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>>937580
Nigga I'm a recovered former atheist and that shit wouldn't have won me over if I were high and drunk.

The most common form of atheism is a result of spiritual aspergers, an inability to handle the abstract and intangible leading to positivist delusions.

>>937580
What's with the shitposting today? It's usually not this bad.

>>936837
Basically MP's taken to the most extreme conclusion.

>inb4 le commissars always shooting their own men meme

>>936845
t. commissar ivan

>we all know for sure that the beliefs Christians hold regarding Jesus are 100% false.

we all know for sure this thread will end in shitposting by both theists and atheists

>>936218
Perhaps true, but the fact that Jesus is not the son of an imnopotent deity is a fact, whether religious people like it or not. Their shitposting should not get in the way of historical discussion - I'm genuinely interested in historical Jesus.

>>936192
>we all know for sure
Speak for yourself

>>934938
because it was fucking cool.

Also it was Roman.

because i can identify with Justinian I

Because the remove kebab meme. Muh Rome, muh true original christianity also. Easy to see how it became a rallying point of traditionalist wankers.

I'm kind of stumped by it myself though, Byzantium can't even show that much in the way of conquest or anything for itself, spent its existence being constantly wreaked by rebellions, turks, crusaders and various slavs

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Three quarks to muster Spark!

Later, he handed control over the record of the universe and humanity to his chosen writers of sick dank fan-fiction.

>>933186
>created
Into the trash.

Because he was making Germany great again.

Because he was the German Donald Trump

>>930038
Because of qt propaganda like pic related

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>>929144

>>929155
>>929155
>this shit again
You dont even need to be religious to know this,you understand that right?I really got tired of this picture getting spammed all the time since its a fucking nothing.

>>929144
God is an idea, not a metaphysical being. He's still the best thing we've got.

You're guilty of the body and blood of Christ
You may as well have partaken in the Crucifixion

Catholics are not Christians.

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>>928856

>>926677
This could actually be a good thread on Christianity

>>926718
I remember someone yesterday saying this place was a christian hugbox despite the fact that you can't make a thread about Christianity without people shitposting in them instead of ignoring them

>>926677
>>926730
I'm not sure if you guys think you're helping your cause instead of creating more division.

>>924099
It's because they're a mongrel nation, bastards of several cultures.
Only speaking the truth, mon ami

>>924111
>It's because they're a mongrel nation, bastards of several cultures.

That's nearly every nation though, including the Japanese and British. That's not a very valid argument for why you think the US has no culture.

>>924133
Yes, but they're old countries, while America is a relatively new one.
I'm sure they'll develop one, but so far they don't have it