You’ve posed a question to which a definitive answer cannot be reached. The highly obstinate will insist that every word is true; the non-believers will say that none of it is true; the sensible will say that some is historically true and some consists of allegorical lessons or parables which may are may not be presented as they were actually spoken originally.
A parable is a fictional story used to teach a lesson, usually one of commendable ethics or morality. Jesus used parables and therefore told untruths to embellish a lesson. That Jonah was actually swallowed by a fish and spit out days later on dry land is likely not true, therefore not historical.
Were I a student of the Bible, I could go on forever and a day listing things I believe to be questionable and things I believe to be literally true. It would be a wasted effort as it likely would not change anyone’s beliefs.
You pride yourself on an economy that is propped up by fiat that your own government doesn’t even control. When the American government needs money it borrows it from bondholders in China or at interest from the Federal Reserve. Your economy is all smoke and mirrors. It’s a joke.
Your military hasn’t won a war since WWII. Even that “win” is debatable as the Soviets carried the majority of the task. Your country is the best weapons maker in the world. That I will concede.
What does Great Britian have to do with this conversation?
Russia and GB would have both folded without the US providing them both aid from 1939 on. GB was literally starving and losing the war in the Atlantic until the US entered taking the war to the U-Boats, and Stalin’s armies were starving and freezing to death until we extended lend lease to them as well.
We created their mechanized quick reaction ability and provided the supplies that kept them alive giving them a chance to build up enough armor and artillery to go on the offensive by providing them millions of rounds of ammo, millions of pairs of winter boots, millions of tons of food, combat aircraft, a rail system and more than 100,000 2.5 Ton Studebaker trucks along with a modern rail system to move it all.
If you don’t understand your own posts or what you’re replying to relative to GB by all means review the thread.
Hopefully before you graduate you will learn some history.
I am 33 and I am not controlled by my parents. In Hungary, we still value our family and respect the wishes of our parents. My father graduated from a university in Massachusetts and saved enough to put me through. I wanted him to keep the money. I graduated from Szeged with a degree in Geology and was working as a geologist in Hungary for the last 10 years. He insisted that I complete my graduate studies before I get too old to maximize the benefit. So here I am. I appreciate the quality of technical education and the sacrifice my father made - but this is not the country he remembers.
Yes - I mentioned that America was already good at military manufacturing and remains the best weapons maker in the world. This doesn’t change the fact that the Soviets carried the war. Again - your victory in WWII is debatable.
Is victory to you making and shipping a lot of stuff for others to use in the fight? No wonder Americans are so fat!
This is hilarious coming from a Hungarian, a country that capitulated to the Soviets without a fight and which would still be under Soviet Domination without the US taking the lead in the cold war.
Hungary, the superpower that never was.
When they weren’t being defeated by the Ottomans, Russians, an Germans they were simply surrendering without a fight.
I respect your age. You surely must have seen America change for the worse. I can’t even believe that this is America. When I came to look at colleges in Massachusetts with my father 15 years ago it was a very nice place. Now - there are aggressive latinos, ■■■■■■■■ and Muslims everywhere.
Say what you want about Hungary. We won’t let them in.
I had a Hungarian friend in high school…Laci Hegi…an exchange student. I befriended him after he was castigated by and arrogant math teacher for crossing his sevens while writing on the blackboard.
He knew little of American culture and traditions when he arrived here. I invited him to our family home for dinner several times and tried to develop a circle of friends for him…but the girls did not appreciate his blatant requests to “go somewhere and have intercourse”.
What an uneducated statement. The decision to use atomic bombs on Japan was based primarily on the only other option of an invasion…which would have caused millions of deaths on both sides.
