Originally Posted by flintlocke
Originally Posted by JSTUART
Originally Posted by stevelyn
Most of what's wrong with this world started with the Brits.


Pot, meet kettle.
No Stevelyn is correct....the indiscriminate, unthoughtful drawing of lines on maps during the height of the British Empire, without any regard for tribal alliances, religions, geography or tradition is responsible for 300 years of strife. The rapacious appetite for wealth of the British East India Co, Hudsons Bay Co and the largest drug dealers in history, the British Opium traders is undeniable.
We Yanks and our love for endless wars do not have clean hands, not by a damn sight, but it pales in comparison to 300 years of British blunders, for which we are still paying for in China and the middle east.
The Brits were also responsible for centuries of war between 2 of the largest call-themselves-Christian churches in existence - the Roman Catholics and the Church of England. Countless 1000's of men died fighting over which church would run the politics of England and other European countries. One king after another came to the throne as a member of the other church and bloody persecutions would ensue trying to turn the country to the king's church. They invented incredibly cruel ways to kill dissidents. It was all as unchristian as it could get.

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