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The rules of succession hasn't been formally changed (yet). It's pending approval from the commonwealth countries, but when Kate popped out a firstborn son, it knocked the wind out of the movement.
Had Victoria's first child, princess Vicky, was recognized as the next monarch to be, she would have never married the heir to the German Kaiser to begin with. A minor German princeling or younger son of a protestant royal family would have been found for her, just as Albert was found for Victoria.
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Originally Posted by slowlane3
If the British would have had their current rule of succession when Victoria died, her daughter would have become queen and her daughter's son would follow her as king. He was Kaiser Wilhelm. The map of Europe would be completely different, WW1 may never have happened, and many of the problems in the world today may not exist.
I've long been struck by the fact that it was been Christianity and western capitalism upholding one another, while socialism is identified with godlessness.
Which of these two ideas do you think more likely to meet with the approval of Jesus?
"From each according to his means, to each according to his needs."
Could you please provide the context under which Jesus, a man who went about predicting the end of the world within the lifetimes of his listeners, as well as the ultimate celestial exhalation of the poor and powerless at the expense of the wealthy and powerful who would be condemned, would ever endorse the notions of private property and profit making?
Hitler loved animals so much that he became a vegetarian...
But he had no problem systematically murdering millions of people...odd
This is not true.
The Nazi Party certainly cultivated the Fuehrer-as-a-lover-of-animals myth, just as they ascribed all manner of warm and fuzzy notions to Hitler as part of the never-ending propaganda campaign. This passage from Kershaw (Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris, p.93) says it best:
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But with is dogs, as with every human being he came into contact with, any relationship was based on subordination to his mastery. 'I liked Foxl [his dog that he kept in the trenches during World War I] so much,' he recalled; 'he only obeyed me.'
In dogs he found the absolute obedience that even his most slavish human followers did not give him. And that's narcissism - not any sort of love for animals.
And his vegetarianism was simply due to the fact that he considered eating meat unhealthy - he did not eat meat for the same reason that he did not smoke (which wasn't because he loved tobacco plants to much he could bear to have them killed).
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In 1912 Ho Chi Minh was a pastery chef in Boston.
Fidel Castro was offered a position on a Major League American baseball team.
Both turned down a future in America to return to their home countries to lead communist revolutions.
That's a (widely held) myth. Castro played some intramural baseball while in law school in Havana but there is no evidence that he played any sort of real organized ball. No minor league ball, no college ball. Not a single boxscore. He was never so much as scouted by an MLB team (because, after all, they don't scout intramural college teams even here in the States or Canada, much less in other countries).
Hitler moves West in 1940, primarily to knock the French and British out of the war one way or another, so as to avoid a two-front war when he eventually and inevitably moves East for lebensraum and the destruction of the Jewish Bolshevik boogeyman.
Ultimately, unable to force the UK out of the war, he invades the USSR anyway - assuring that a state of hot (not just nominal, as in pre-May 1940) two-front war existed.
Could you please provide the context under which Jesus, a man who went about predicting the end of the world within the lifetimes of his listeners, as well as the ultimate celestial exhalation of the poor and powerless at the expense of the wealthy and powerful who would be condemned, would ever endorse the notions of private property and profit making?
Jesus said anything if you look in the bible. I went to a very traditional Catholic school and bibles provoke me cirrhosis. Who was the English writer? Bacon? "The devil can cite the scripture for his purposes".
Plus, the New Testament is a fabrication, if the New Testament would say the real words of JC, it would not be "commercial" and it would not be understood at all.
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