Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "There are NO Universal Human Rights. British Conservatism is Rooted in History NOT Religion." video.

@harixav Historically there was debate among artists and Protestant theologians, especially centred in the Netherlands in the 1600s, about whether Jesus should be depicted as blond haired and blue eyed, or as having darker eyes and hair, and more olive skin. Jesus probably also knew Hebrew, as Jesus is portrayed as literate in religion, and Greek, as Greek was the official language of the region at that time. The Bible describes Jesus communicating to Romans in first person, which would require knowledge of Greek and possibly Latin as well. The earliest forms of the gospels are in Greek and Coptic.
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@harixav I don't dispute Jesus spoke Aramaic. I have no evidence he did not know Greek as it was widely used at that time. He also lived in Egypt as a child. His parents would have needed to be able to communicate to travel so far. Yes when Rome adopted Christianity the gospels were culled to those too popular to be deleted and those least outspoken against Rome. But throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, portions of gospels, including gnostic gospels excluded by Rome have turned up, predating Rome's conversion by centuries. Paul ofcourse claimed Roman citizenship and did preach to the gentiles. PS I was not notified of your comment.
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I'm Australian and I was horrified of his position on mandatory vaxes. He was even keener on human rights abuses than our government, which is saying something. It turned me off him completely for a long time, and I'm not aware he ever recanted. He claimed he wished the vax for polio had been mandated but instead he caught polio. I was shocked that such a learned person could fall for such black and white self centered thinking. I see it among many people his age regarding the vax. There's a man I know in his 70s proud to announce he will never see his kids or grandkids again as the grandchildren are not vaccinated. However the joke is on him. Every day he goes to the pub, and since bartending is one of the few jobs in Australia where you don't need to be vaxed, 100% of the staff are unvaxed.
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 @harixav That has been debated for five hundred years. Jesus is also described as blushing.
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 @cargumdeu There is a huge jump between being wrong on an issue, and advocating human rights abuses.
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Reading through the comments I can't help but notice that many view the treatment of gays as the epitome on which to judge western values. We used to have actual rights and freedoms worth defending. When China invades, and in Australia most see this as when, not if, I often wonder what western values people will be willing to lay down their lives to defend, multiculturalism? Abortion up until birth? Drag queen story hour for toddlers?
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@cargumdeu Oh no it was more than advocating. He called for the forced vaxing of everyone. As an Australian where this was official policy it was so sad. He had been my favourite historian since I was a child. And I own many of his books. But, as a commenter on many contemporary events, it was showing the usual selfishness of so many childless people, that he publicly called for every man, woman, and child, to be vaxed against the the Geneva Convention in order to protect people of his age. His rant on the subject was truly horrendous. Especially if, like me, you lived in a country where you needed to be vaxed to work at all. And our government was building concentration camps in every state, whilst our public broadcaster was telling the population that unvaccinated could be indefinitely incarcerated in them. And there is Starkey saying it's all great if it increases his survival chances.
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