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From my knowledge of history, the winners god's is always right, just as history is written by the victor. That latter part includes the former, and goes far be
by ovi256 15y ago
From my knowledge of history, the winners god's is always right, just as history is written by the victor. That latter part includes the former, and goes far beyond what we usually acknowledge. It's not only that the victor's reasons for a war are considered just over the loser's. The values of the victor, his cultural framework, are used to judge the loser's and the rest of the world's. And history is written from his viewpoint. It's a meta victory.
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- wensing 15y agoThat's an overgeneralization. The Old Testament is littered with examples of the Israelites failing in battle because God was not with them at that particular time. But He was still their Jehovah.
- burgerbrain 15y agoBeowulf was defeated by the dragon, but that doesn't mean that actually ever happened... Anyway, Judaism still strongly exists today, despite any hiccups it had, as opposed to other things like Baalism or whatever. They are therefore the "victor".