• opus86@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Letting Religion run things is how you get the dark ages again. They were called dark for a reason.

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      1 day ago

      They’re called dark ages because there’s not much record about it.

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          19 hours ago

          No, the same goes for archeologic findings.

          It’s believed that some king shifted years to extend his reign on paper or get a favourable century.

          Edit: That’s a load of crap

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            That is a conspiracy theory that can easily be disproven if you look literally anywhere outside of Western Europe. Muhammad started Islam and composed the Qu’ran at the beginning of that time period, and the Islamic calendar begins in 622 AD. According to the Phantom Time theory, basically none of early Islamic history actually existed and it’s a fabrication by… The Pope?! It’s an absurd premise. The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 and still existed in 911, with all sorts of written and archeological evidence in favor, and let’s not forget about the other Roman Empire that existed in that time frame and have their own historical and archeological evidence, including about events that overlapped with Western histories such as Irene of Athens being pressured to marry Charlemagne. Again, it stretches credulity that the Byzantine Emperors and Eastern Church or any Muslims whatsoever would be swayed to fabricate so much of their own history by the Pope. This theory is absurd at best and racist at worst because in erasing so much Western European history it just kind of assumes literally nothing was happening anywhere else in the world either.

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            24 hours ago

            Kings aren’t good either, especially when they think they are a genius.

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              24 hours ago

              What does that have to do with anything?

              It just means it might not be 2025 but way earlier right now.

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                22 hours ago

                Trump thinks he’s a genius king. He’s fired anyone that can stop him. They are replacing entire government departments with AI. He’s just got sick of Elon’s shit and took it over himself. This is where it gets really bumpy.