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George what the fuck are you talking about (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Chirac, a Roman Catholic, promptly asked his staff to call the French Federation of Protestants...

Sentences that could have been in the 16th century

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The French would have absolutely not had a federation of protestants in the 16th century

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago

Huguenots in shambles

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edict of Nantes was signed in 1598, which is still technically in the 16th century. technically the French Federation of Protestants started in 1905, but the concept of a French conferring with protestants would have started then.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

That is cutting it real close

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We had so much discourse back then about the WoT being a modern day crusade. The evangelicals had a lot more power back then that's been watered down by the expansion of the culture war, imo. Lol, the billionaires diversified their foot soldiers. frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

I think Iraqis and Afghans would even refer to American troops as "crusaders" as a type of slur, too, back in 2005ish at the height of both wars.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago

She Gog on Magog til I corncog

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

I was a teenager during the W. years and I just remember it as the bleakest time. Not the best time in my life and just terrible politically. Very similar to the Biden years (W. and Biden are almost the same guy in so many ways), except imagine that no one is fighting back (except some pretty desperate people in Iraq and Afghanistan I guess) and all you know about Marxism comes from the cow poster on the wall of the English teacher's classroom. Don't get me wrong, things are still very bad now...but back then, they were possibly worse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

So I sent this to the chat as a joke and somebody asked if it was real, and holy shit y'all:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Silly bush! Gog and Magog have been evul atheist-orthodox-soviet-russian-empire for a while now!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

If he'd read the Left Behind novels he'd know that Gog and Magog are actually Russia and Ethiopia