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3/ Romans 10:19 Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says, “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.” (Written c. 58 AD)
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4/ 1 Kings 8:53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.” (written c. 500 BC)
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5/ "nation" - English (c. 1600 AD ?) from "nacion" - Middle English from "nacion" - Old French from "nationem" - Latin from "nasci" - Etruscan (?) c. 700 BC vs "Nationalism is a modern creation " -
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@AlexNowrasteh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk_period#The_first_states_and_their_institutions … "The idea that the Uruk period [ 6,000 to 5,000 years ago ] saw the appearance of a true state... is generally accepted by scholars"Show this thread -
8/ We all need to eat. I write code to earn money.
@AlexNowrasteh says provably false things on the internet, day after day, for the same purpose. https://twitter.com/kaijubushi/status/1085902798967820289 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
9/ except "nation" means "a group of people of shared ethnicity who think of themselves as one people, who are taxed, raise an army, consider themselves better than others, and attack others to to make them do their will" in both 5,000 BC and 2,000 ADhttps://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1085904745397596161 …
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10/ If you want to argue that "nation" means all of the above in 2,019 AD, but all of these various concepts were invented c. 1880, I am willing to listen to your argument.
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By geological standards...
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