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jar
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Message 12 of 103 (681392)
11-25-2012 2:16 PM
Reply to: Message 11 by Faith
11-25-2012 1:46 PM


Re: Just a little "fundamentalist" Anglophilia lamentation
None of this is about Creationism in particular but none of these great names would have rejected the first 11 chapters of Genesis.
What makes you think that? Isn't it possible that they also dealt in the real world and if given the overwhelming facts that show the first 11 chapters of Genesis are not factual but rather just fable that they would acknowledge those facts, or do you think (which is entirely possible considering that many of those you mention were pretty delusional anyway) that they would abandon reality and retreat into myth?

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Message 31 of 103 (681418)
11-25-2012 4:19 PM
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11-25-2012 4:07 PM


an aside on history
Consider the wealth of that country today with the wealth of the country before it was colonized.
Actually India was wealthy, perhaps far more wealthy, before the British. It was that wealth that Britain wanted. In fact the Mughal Empire was both wealthy and culturally advanced with more religious freedom than many European nations.

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jar
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Message 36 of 103 (681429)
11-25-2012 4:44 PM
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11-25-2012 4:33 PM


Re: an aside on history
While I don't doubt that you send money to them, that's about all I believe in your post.

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jar
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Message 39 of 103 (681432)
11-25-2012 4:47 PM
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11-25-2012 4:35 PM


Re: an aside on history
That's not what I said.
But the evidence does show that the average Indian was living in better conditions than the average Briton under the Mughal Empire. The British interest in India was to move the wealth from Indians to Britons.
it really was that simple.

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Message 40 of 103 (681433)
11-25-2012 4:47 PM
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11-25-2012 4:46 PM


Re: an aside on history
Oh I believe pictures are great marketing.

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Message 43 of 103 (681439)
11-25-2012 5:10 PM
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11-25-2012 5:01 PM


Re: an aside on history
But that is irrelevant, almost everyone is better off today than they were three or four hundred years ago.
But did being conquered by the British help them?
I can't think of any way that British colonization helped the Indians.
Would they be as well or better off today had the British not raped the sub-continent?
I don't know anyway to say.

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