re: Worst Decisions in World History

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I always see the sack of Baghdad mentioned as a reason why Islam is so backward

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It's a reason, among many, that Arabs lagged behind Turks and Persians in West Asia afterwards. Turco-Persian culture dominated West and Central Asia up until the 20th century, and in some areas, are still dominant. It's effect might be overstated, but it represented a total collapse of the Arab culture that developed after the Umayyads. Other areas under Islamic rule developed independently.

Assassination of Lincoln

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It’s what I’m discussing.

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Do none of you have reading comprehension? He is referring to the delay of the "final push to Moscow," i.e. Hitler's rerouting of panzer elements to assist Army Group South. You said:

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6) Hitler invading Yugoslavia delaying Operation Barbarossa by a month and a half

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These are not the same thing. These are totally separate events.

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When Napoleon took Moscow, there wasn’t a mass train and intellectual industrial complex there. You take Moscow in WWII though, where are the Russians going to go? It’s not like you take the Csar out of Moscow and the troops defend him. How is Stalin going to get out secure communications and supply lines to his people if Moscow isn’t intact.

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Nobody is arguing that Moscow was not an extremely valuable military objective...

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John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono

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They would’ve broken up eventually anyway. At least she inspired a few songs.

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He was far from the first nor will he be the last to do this. The only thing that sits him apart is he was the first to go about it from an industrial standpoint.

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so you agree it was a bad decision or no

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The final Byzantine-Sasanian War wouldn't have been nearly as costly for either side (or happened at all), and both would've been able to swat the Arabs storming out of the desert aside without much problem.

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If I recall, Heraclius also stopped paying tribute to the Arab chieftains after the Persian war due to strained finances. That clearly became a problem. I think both the Byzantines and Persians employed Arab mercenaries who proved unreliable in the battles against their kinsmen.

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so you agree it was a bad decision or no

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It was a bad decision, but there are at least 5 bad decisions that directly led to the Holocaust. As atrocious as it is, if you take out any of the bad decisions I listed that took place within the lifetime of the Holocaust, it doesn’t occur.

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Creation is ALL God. 

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K

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Abraham sleeping with Hagar

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For the win, in light of the last 40+ years.

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Retard Alert

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Yeah... OK buddy. The people who believe in God are retarded? At least we have an explanation for creation, as opposed to y’all who believe creation just sprang from completely... NOTHING. Then when your theories and hyperboles are proven wrong by the very science y’all rely so heavily on and worship, the only answer you can give is “well, let’s just add another billion years on”. Meanwhile the Bible has never been proven wrong in even the simplest of things and has remained unchanged through the centuries. Tell me, how many times has your science textbooks changed over the past even 20 years? A LOT. As a matter of fact, the more truth (as in NOT hypothesis or theories, which would be laws if they were proven true) we find in science, the more it falls in line with the Bible. There is no denying that fact. It takes more faith to believe in the theories of evolution and the Big Bang, which are outliers compared to true, proven, real science than it ever does believing in a creator. So who’s really pushing fairy tales?
If people would learn critical thinking in science and think things through for themselves without buying every piece of crap OPINION some libtard professor let’s fall off off their forked tongue, people would see that the Bible is right. And real, proven science supports it, not proves it wrong.