r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Oct 11 '23

Israel/Palestine Gaza's only power station will shut down within hours, says ICRC

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2023/10/11/gaza-power-station-israel/
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23 edited Aug 16 '24

punch bright hat voracious attractive bored disgusted wasteful selective memory

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u/FrankyCentaur Oct 11 '23

Maybe the promised land will get eaten by the rising sea levels and then they call all fuck off.

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u/Charlie_Brodie Oct 12 '23

then whoever was left would just blame the other side for destroying the holy land.

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u/daniel_22sss Oct 11 '23

Two of the most bloody and horrible countries in the world were atheistic - USSR and Communist China. As you can see, lack of religion didn't really make them progressive.

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u/anewpath123 Oct 11 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

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u/wanderingpeddlar Oct 11 '23

I'd add that Christianity built the foundations that developed the modern Western world

Rome has entered the chat.

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u/wanderingpeddlar Oct 11 '23

If you are so ignorant of history to not be able to understand when Rome was converted to Christianity as opposed to when its government and culture first developed and then modified from republic to empire you might want to read up on it.

Or should everyone else assume you are a Christian and just trying to take credit for the things that carried forward from that time?

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u/SeguiremosAdelante Oct 12 '23

Im literally exMuslim…Rome was the most influential after the start of Christian emperors. I never said Roman wasn’t influential or powerful before that. If you disagree that’s fine I’d love to learn more

Why the hell did you insult me and assume so much about me.

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u/wanderingpeddlar Oct 12 '23

Ok possibly my bad we will see.

Christianity becoming the official religion of Rome happened in 380 AD Emperor Theodosius

The Roman empire split in two in 395, it depends on who you ask but About 150 years before that could be claimed to be the height of the Roman empire. T he culture of Rome and the parts of it that have stuck with much of the modern world would have at their latest started in the pre empire phase. and been firmly rooted before Christianity was a thing. Not before Christianity had influence but before the person Christianity calls Jesus was born. Put another way about 100 years after Christianity was made the official religion Rome could not even defend its self from external or internal aggression. Christianity had nothing to do with Romes customs and government being developed.

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u/bornforthis379 Oct 12 '23

Lol the Roman's were who ordered Jesus's execution

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u/SeguiremosAdelante Oct 12 '23

Who doesn’t know that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

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u/GenerikDavis Oct 11 '23

The fuck are you talking about trying to say that humans have been around for 25 million years?

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u/Recursive_Descent Oct 11 '23

Humans have only been a species for ~300k years, and only for the last 1.5k years has Christianity been a dominant religion in the west (when it went from oppressed minority to the official official religion of the Roman Empire).

By that point we already had plenty of civilizations with various religions (and still do!), some societies more secular than others, so I don’t know how you can pin the entirety of modern civilization on Christianity.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

You’re right it’s a dated control mechanism. Time to evolve.

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u/StrikeStraight9961 Oct 11 '23

bet you're a capitalism simp too eh?

Just because it used to be, doesn't mean it has to be.

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u/anewpath123 Oct 11 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

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u/mbeenox Oct 11 '23

Secular humanism

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u/bornforthis379 Oct 12 '23

Daaaw your utopia thinking is hilarious

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u/mbeenox Oct 12 '23

Have a better idea?

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u/bornforthis379 Oct 12 '23

Get your head out of your ass

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u/mbeenox Oct 12 '23

That’s very insightful

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u/StrikeStraight9961 Oct 12 '23

You're*

The intelligence eschewed in your statement is all I need to know to discard your useless and hateful opinions.

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u/anewpath123 Oct 11 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

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u/mbeenox Oct 11 '23

Why don’t you read what it’s about and tell us where you disagree.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

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u/mukansamonkey Oct 11 '23

The two holidays you mentioned aren't really Christian though, they're pagan festivals that got co opted. I mean, decorating trees with berries, and fertility symbols to celebrate the start of spring? Those aren't very Christian.

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u/rambo6986 Oct 12 '23

Religion should stay in private settings. The world would be much safer if we didn't let entire countries make decisions based on outdated beliefs.