Posted on 12/12/2014 10:01:50 AM PST by xzins
One reason it is so high is math. Your progenitors double every generation going back. By the time you get back 30 generations (roughly 1000 years ago), you have 67 million potential ancestors, or roughly two-thirds of the entire estimated population of Europe at the time.
Of course lack of mobility which led to cousin marriages and the like reduced that actual number considerably and that is why it is 1 in 12 rather than 2 in 3.
Exactly! Thanks for that great explanation!
Tell you one thing Di FI is one of Frisco Lib Bimbos she got elect because Dan White kill the Frisco mayor
I didn’t write it, but I suspect most folks on reading this would figure it out somewhere around the 2nd half of the first sentence. :>)
You are certainly right; but I don’t feel like putting up with nonsense (I took the time to read the half sentence) and Jim Robinson made that request. For example, I always liked Andrew Jackson, so I bought a brand new awards winning bio of him last summer. I was astonished that the whole thing was written from the standpoint of Jackson being a white supremacist. Shortly afterward, my nephew gave me a lecture on how American history was the history of white supremacy. He had just finished an American history course in college. He was a bit surprised when I went ballistic. I think I disabused him of that little error. As for the satire, you can find seriously written essays that are not too far from it. If it had not been for Boehner, I probably would have read it and laughed.
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As bad as I feel for the French right now, I can't bring myself to put the tricolor flag of the French Revolution on my Facebook profile. Those who know the history of France and its modern post-World War II war on religion know this is a country which has not just decades but centuries of hatred for Christianity.
There is no country in Europe which has a longer history of being friendly toward Islamic radicals. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lived in France when the Shah of Iran threw him out. Many others did the same.
If you've read the ISIS statement justifying its attack on France — and I have — they blast Paris as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity” but also as “the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe.” Link here: https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Statements/is-claims-paris-attacks-warns-operation-is-first-of-the-storm.html
How could that be? Islam, like most other non-Christian religions, focuses not so much on personal faith but rather on culture. In their view, the French are a Christian nation. Well maybe they were in the days of Charles Martel — the Frankish warlord who stopped the Muslim advance out of Spain and into Europe. But that was nearly thirteen centuries ago in the year 732 at the Battle of Tours.
I hope the attack on France shows clearly that people who think we can claim Muslim attacks will stop if we say we are not a Christian nation are deluded. France is a secular nation in all senses of the word. Even their conservative political parties are secular and would be extreme leftists in America.
But they are still attacked as “the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe.” France is no cross-carrier. But a good case can be made that America is (or at least has been in our past) and we might find the sword of the Cross is more powerful that the crescent of Islam. It certainly is more powerful than the atheism of the French Revolution.
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