m. Britain didnt create Israel because of their religion, but because it was an effective way to get a colony and get rid of jews (lord Balfour was wildly antisemitic).
they sold it twice. once to the orthodox and once to the Palestinians. a drunken stumble from the ottoman empire we’re still coping with.
and now our idiotic evangelical nutbags are fueling their vision of the end times.
imagine if everyone stopped believing there was a higher power pushing them to this bonkers state
well that settles it then! he said nope, offered no evidence or reasoning, but hell, he said nope folks, we got choice but to concede the argument to this fucking bellend mental skip of a human being
Then the corporations that benefit from supporting israel would find different politicians to support to enacting the same ends.
Do you think that if Martin Luthor was born in China instead of Germany, there would have been no reformation? If Adam Smith was born in Ancient Egypt, they would have created capitalism and iPhones instead of pyramids?
this is the goofiest argument I’ve run into yet. without a few thousand years of assholes fighting over the same spit of wasteland you wouldn’t have any of this idiotic shit.
No, you absolutely would have; the perspectives and beliefs that are elevated in society aren’t selected at random but by what reinforces existing power structures. If it didnt benefit Raytheon, apocalyptic cultists would just be more weirdos on the street, not elected congressmen. The crusades were ultimately about seizing on a weakened Ottoman Empire to conquer nearby lands and reinforce the power of the church within Europe. If they didnt have god as a justification, they would have used a different one.
they sold it twice. once to the orthodox and once to the Palestinians. a drunken stumble from the ottoman empire we’re still coping with.
and now our idiotic evangelical nutbags are fueling their vision of the end times.
imagine if everyone stopped believing there was a higher power pushing them to this bonkers state
You say that like the entire secular leadership of the West hasn’t consistently been breying for oceans of Palestinian blood.
pfft. sorry they’re behind the settlers and jihadists every time
Nope. Not even close.
well that settles it then! he said nope, offered no evidence or reasoning, but hell, he said nope folks, we got choice but to concede the argument to this fucking bellend mental skip of a human being
Then the corporations that benefit from supporting israel would find different politicians to support to enacting the same ends.
Do you think that if Martin Luthor was born in China instead of Germany, there would have been no reformation? If Adam Smith was born in Ancient Egypt, they would have created capitalism and iPhones instead of pyramids?
this is the goofiest argument I’ve run into yet. without a few thousand years of assholes fighting over the same spit of wasteland you wouldn’t have any of this idiotic shit.
No, you absolutely would have; the perspectives and beliefs that are elevated in society aren’t selected at random but by what reinforces existing power structures. If it didnt benefit Raytheon, apocalyptic cultists would just be more weirdos on the street, not elected congressmen. The crusades were ultimately about seizing on a weakened Ottoman Empire to conquer nearby lands and reinforce the power of the church within Europe. If they didnt have god as a justification, they would have used a different one.
pfft… you totally disregard the impact geography has on history.
what a maroon.