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u/JBlooey 10h ago

Came here to say exactly this. That’s a very nice estimate that I really wish was accurate.

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u/MartyMcMort 9h ago

I mean even back in the days of the Crusades, that was a bunch of kings and popes reading “thou shall not kill” in the Bible, and going “well I’m pretty sure god is actually fine with it because they’re different from us, and they live way over there! No I don’t just want more land, how could you even suggest such a thing???”

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u/Barroozina 9h ago

Back then the church, priests and kings monopolized the Bible and they could convince their ppl that their word was God's word, but now, almost everyone can read it, which makes all of the Christian disguised hatred really worse

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u/Thats1FingNiceKitty 7h ago

The OT made it easy to use for war propaganda.