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To what extent could the Glorious Revolution be called and invasion? Does anyone think it was an invasion?
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Considering that sermons were held in Latin in medieval times, that is not too surprising. I don't think the Church persecuted Jews - rather commoners who would not be too well versed in theological matters. Or nobility, who hated the idea of paying back their debts.
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The crucifixion wasn't a good thing. It was murder. Christ giving himself up was what was good.
That may be a point of theology that varies by denomination or individual.
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also, it was an execution, not murder according to the respective law system.
Probably the most common denigration of Jews throughout the last 200 years is that they are "the killers of Christ". Easy to see how the masses (the uneducated populace) could use that as a basis for Antisemitism.
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But that wouldn't work unilaterally into say Nazism. It might work wherever there were religion revivals.
From what I read, to the Nazi's, jews were seen as communists, and that fit the ideology that Germany lost WW1 due to a mixed conspiracy of subversive groups in its population. But it seems like jews just became a favorite boogey man to attach to anything the Nazi's didn't like---non-aryans, homosexuals, bankers, etc.. Some examples: http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/The_War_Against_the_Jews.asp
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Yeah, "Dutch Invasion with Fantastic PR" is a much more accurate name for it.
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"The PR Invasion" would be the greatest name for a war ever.
Nazism had more of a racial element to their hatred of Jews than a religious one, despite the fact that Jews aren't a race.
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German unification is a bit confusing to me.
As I understand it: the Austro-Prussian War was roughly planned out by Bismarck so that he could exclude Austria from the new North German Confederation, thereby ensuring that the new state would be dominated by Prussia. At this point, all of the smaller Germanic states were becoming frustrated by Prussian attempts to stifle their regional powers in favor of a strong monarchy.
So why exactly, after the overwhelming victory in the Franco-Prussian War, did all of the southern German states agree to join the German Empire? It seems like that came right out of the blue.
As I understand it: the Austro-Prussian War was roughly planned out by Bismarck so that he could exclude Austria from the new North German Confederation, thereby ensuring that the new state would be dominated by Prussia. At this point, all of the smaller Germanic states were becoming frustrated by Prussian attempts to stifle their regional powers in favor of a strong monarchy.
So why exactly, after the overwhelming victory in the Franco-Prussian War, did all of the southern German states agree to join the German Empire? It seems like that came right out of the blue.
The Seven Weeks' War was not planned like that. Emphasis on not planned.
The south German states had already patched up relations with the Prussians following the Peace of Prague. Offensive/defensive alliances were signed with Baden, Bayern, and Württemberg. These states were willing to do this in part because they were coerced by von Bismarck, in part because of German public opinion, and in part because of the threatening gestures of Napoleon III, who on August 4, 1866 demanded that von Bismarck, in return for being allowed to form the North German Confederation, would have Prussia cede Saarbrücken, Landau, and much of the western bank of the Rhine. This was seen as yet another redux of the old French desire to push for the Rhine as its natural borders. Napoleon was rebuffed by von Bismarck, but the threat remained. It was amplified in 1867 during the Luxemburg crisis, when Napoleon again threatened war over the issue of the sale of Luxemburg by the Dutch crown. By 1870, the south German states were far more scared of France than they were of Prussia, and the French declaration of war following the furor over the Ems telegram merely forced the pace of German unification. (Von Bismarck, on the very day that he sent the Ems dispatch, informed a friend that he was confident of being able to pull the south Germans into the Confederation peacefully, and that he merely needed to get Europe used to that state of affairs. In fact, Baden had offered to be annexed earlier in that year but von Bismarck refused.)LightSpectra said:
It helped, of course, that the German Reich was a federal state and the individual kingdoms retained a great deal of sovereignty.
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So the southern states joined the empire as a protective means against France? Why did they not just maintain their defensive alliances with the NGC?
Do you think that public opinion really would have permitted that in the heady days of early 1871, with Paris playing host to Prussian - and south German - soldiers? During the war, von Bismarck was alternately threatening and bribing the southern German governments. With success to crown the Prussian arms there really wasn't a question of turning the (again, largely autonomous and federal) union with the northern confederation down.
As mentioned, a legal execution does not equal murder (unless legal murder) and Jesus didn;t give himself up: he didn't resist being arrested.
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Any prominent hermaphrodites in history?
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A few Greeks spring to mind, but their hermaphridity was probably legendary, not factual.
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Rasputin got in good with the Romanovs because he healed Nicholas' hermaphrodite son, if my first-semester translation of this Russian text is correct.
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