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"Nationalism is a modern creation" - spoken like someone who has never read Plato, Caesar, or the Old Testament.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1085876616432103424 …
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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)
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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"nation" - English (c. 1600 AD ?)
from "nacion" - Middle English
from "nacion" - Old French
from "nationem" - Latin
from "nasci" - Etruscan (?) c. 700 BC
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"Nationalism is a modern creation " - @AlexNowrasteh , ~ 1 hour ago
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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"
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I write code to earn money.
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says provably false things on the internet, day after day, for the same purpose.
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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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I just had the discussion at church with people explaining that “nation” and “state” were two very different and only sorta-related concepts until the mid-19th century. That knowledge is really important for biblical interpretation...
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