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Wow the parallels are striking, NOT.
1 posted on 02/22/2016 6:20:01 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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And the Hits Keep Coming!


2 posted on 02/22/2016 6:22:12 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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3 posted on 02/22/2016 6:22:55 AM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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Well did he keep the Muslims away?


4 posted on 02/22/2016 6:22:57 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Desperation.


5 posted on 02/22/2016 6:23:05 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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When Trump is inaugurated I fully expect 2/3 of the American media to burst into flames.

I’m stocking up on marshmallows.

Then I say we go after the remaining third.

L


6 posted on 02/22/2016 6:24:08 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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I have heard of Godwin's Law, but comparing Trump to Charlemagne?

Umm.... Hate to break this to you WaPo, but there has been quite a lot that has happened in the 1,200 years since. To say "When Christians anointed another political bully"

7 posted on 02/22/2016 6:24:46 AM PST by KC_Lion (I think it is obvious, feminism stops where Islam begins.)
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Charlemagne? You mean the guy who united Europe and made possible the development of the culture we arose from? Oh who would want that?! /s


9 posted on 02/22/2016 6:25:06 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Tan Hairpiece Eminent Domain Trump Curse Word French Poodle Forgot To Put Toilet Seat Down)
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The Saxons were really vicious marauders, were they not? Were they an invasion force? We're they the scourge of Europe after Rome fell?

Just sayin'....

10 posted on 02/22/2016 6:26:04 AM PST by grania
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In 782, in the Massacre of Verden, Charles ordered the execution of 4,500 prisoners, apparently for their refusal to convert to Christianity.

It's a little more complicated than that. Look up "Massacre of Verden" on Wikipedia. It looks like this was a retaliation for breaking a truce and killing nobles and counts, not mere religious culling.

An entry for the year 782 in the Royal Frankish Annals records that, after Charlemagne lost two envoys, four counts, and around 20 nobles in battle with the Saxons, Charlemagne responded by massacring 4,500 rebelling Saxons near what is now Verden.

We still remember Charlemagne 1200 years later, his time was a net plus. I believe that Trump would like to be remembered in the same way.
11 posted on 02/22/2016 6:26:56 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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TrumpMagne...

...I kinda like it, actually.


13 posted on 02/22/2016 6:29:37 AM PST by JPJones
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This is funny on so many levels.

That the WP should publish such tripe in a literary sense is one thing. Add to that the actual legacy of the historical, supposed, bad guy and you have a chuckle fest.

Yes, the new epoch is what we want.


14 posted on 02/22/2016 6:30:04 AM PST by KC Burke
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Good grief,


15 posted on 02/22/2016 6:30:16 AM PST by lacrew
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It is completely enjoyable to see them squirming and frightened.


16 posted on 02/22/2016 6:33:26 AM PST by MarMema
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Several years ago I was visiting a family in Northern Germany whose entire family gathered to celebrate that their daughter returned from the USA to visit after being away for over a decade. I was traveling with her.

Her aunts were in their 90’s and began singing beautiful Christian hymns in German. Her father, who was sitting across the table from me began crying and stated “That was the hymn we sang during my induction ceremony into Hitler’s army.” (He was on a Panzer tank crew.)

I never knew that Hitler sold the war to the German people as a Christian war and the persecution of Jews was justified by what they did to Jesus until that moment. I was among beautiful caring people who followed their country as it was led astray by Hitler manipulating their religion.


18 posted on 02/22/2016 6:34:36 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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This is stupid. King David was an adulterer and murderer and God placed him on the throne of Israel.


19 posted on 02/22/2016 6:34:50 AM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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We DO love those uber liberal professors, don't we?
They always manage to inform the world how stupid we mere morals are, don't they?
23 posted on 02/22/2016 6:38:07 AM PST by cloudmountain
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How’s Dorkbama the MUSLIM doing there, WaPo?

You know....YOUR (not my) president.


25 posted on 02/22/2016 6:39:40 AM PST by Da Coyote
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ANOTHER Suppiluliuma I?


28 posted on 02/22/2016 6:40:42 AM PST by cloudmountain
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What an imbecile.


29 posted on 02/22/2016 6:41:50 AM PST by Mamzelle
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Charles the Great also known as Charlemagne. The Holy Roman Emperor. Modern day France, Germany, Northern Italy, and so forth. As such, he ruled from 800 to 814.

Notice that Charles did not follow the Geneva Conventions. These would emerge as “rules of war” many centuries later, and then be codified in the late 19th century. According to liberals, Christians of the distant past are to be judged by these rules, but not non-Christians of the distant past or even of the present.


31 posted on 02/22/2016 6:44:23 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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