More Bwa Ha Ha
We turned the tide, prevent our invasion, but could not retate Europe by ourselves.
Turned the Tide? Bwa Ha Ha. You mean Hitler attacked Russia using more than 90% of his miltary with the result that 20 million Russians died. Meanwhile almost the entire British military (apart from a much smaller force under Slim in Burma) and including the huge commonwealth forces (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc, etc) were all trying to beat 1 German General
in North Africa, a sideshow to the war. Of course the British never managed to beat the German Army when equally matched. They only beat them when they had superior and overwhelming everything, manpower, euipment,etc. But of course the same applies to the US and Soviet forces.
This has not stopped the triumphalism that Britain shows, that somehow it almost singlehandedly won the war, yes it needed US help but the soviets, who were they?
Basically we had the shit bombed out of us.
Britain did not get the shit bombed out of it. Lets see, just one example. Greece (1/6th the population of UK) lost 100,000 people in first winter of occupation alone owing to harsh German retaliations following resistance. Much worse happened in Yugoslavia and did I mention the Russians?
But of course, Britain won the war and it is often perceived in Britain that the rest of Europe were just passive observers and are ungrateful towards the heroic English.
Orthodox Christian priests have to be married. This has been the case since the dawn of Christianity. Cellibate catholic priests is a "newer" practice (lasts 1000 years). Of course there have been monks since the fifth century. It would be nice if ocassionally the supposed smart people who talk about history expecially history of the church actually went beyond the catholicism/protestant versions of christianity. Afterall, christianity is an eastern religion with old traditions. Catholicism is a recent (1100 year) offshoot and protestantism is an offshoot (500 year) of catholicism. Christianity started 2000 years ago, so look to older versions ie eastern tradition for original concepts.
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Turned the Tide? Bwa Ha Ha. You mean Hitler attacked Russia using more than 90% of his miltary with the result that 20 million Russians died. Meanwhile almost the entire British military (apart from a much smaller force under Slim in Burma) and including the huge commonwealth forces (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc, etc) were all trying to beat 1 German General in North Africa, a sideshow to the war. Of course the British never managed to beat the German Army when equally matched. They only beat them when they had superior and overwhelming everything, manpower, euipment,etc. But of course the same applies to the US and Soviet forces.
This has not stopped the triumphalism that Britain shows, that somehow it almost singlehandedly won the war, yes it needed US help but the soviets, who were they?
Basically we had the shit bombed out of us. Britain did not get the shit bombed out of it. Lets see, just one example. Greece (1/6th the population of UK) lost 100,000 people in first winter of occupation alone owing to harsh German retaliations following resistance. Much worse happened in Yugoslavia and did I mention the Russians? But of course, Britain won the war and it is often perceived in Britain that the rest of Europe were just passive observers and are ungrateful towards the heroic English.
Orthodox Christian priests have to be married. This has been the case since the dawn of Christianity. Cellibate catholic priests is a "newer" practice (lasts 1000 years). Of course there have been monks since the fifth century. It would be nice if ocassionally the supposed smart people who talk about history expecially history of the church actually went beyond the catholicism/protestant versions of christianity. Afterall, christianity is an eastern religion with old traditions. Catholicism is a recent (1100 year) offshoot and protestantism is an offshoot (500 year) of catholicism. Christianity started 2000 years ago, so look to older versions ie eastern tradition for original concepts.