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Ja, mein cerebro ist muerto. (Worldaffairs Talk Post)
I speak English, Swedish, and understand a teeny bit of Finnish. Wanna learn a ton of other languages though. Latin, French, Spanish, Japanese, Gaelic..![](https://videosift.com/vs5/emoticon/smile.gif)
Jesus Loves You (conditionally)
As soon as Christianity was legal (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed.
Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
Examples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea, the Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the Heliopolis.
Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous as "temple destroyer."
Pagan services became punishable by death in 356.
Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues.
According to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian teachings..."
In 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.
In the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand of Christian authorities
The world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in 415.
* Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded.
* Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany.
* Battle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered.
* 15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights of the Order. Victims unknown.
* 16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".
Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage.
Scottish National Party Election Broadcast - "It's Time"
"Everyone in Britain already speaks one language, English"
No they don't!!! 600,000 plus people in Wales speak Welsh as a first language and almost 60,000 people speak Scots Gaelic as a first language. There are also close to two million Irish Gaelic speakers in greater Ireland. And Scots is widely used throughout Scotland in addition to English. (Add to this an increasing immigrant population who speak little/no English and you get a more accurate linguistic map.)
You're probably one of those people who goes abroad and gets pissed off when people don't speak English!
Tha mi a' sgaoil am leathar a'faighean ràinig thu a bhàrr!!!
Scottish National Party Election Broadcast - "It's Time"
You don't have to imbue every little thing with imagined symbolism for it to have meaning.
"You pretend to be anti-nationalism but then reveal yourself to be a linguistic imperialist - everyone should speak English or else!"
That's nonsense, even you must see that. Everyone in Britain already speaks one language, English. What kind of evil filth would try to change that? Surely being able to talk to each other is a good thing? If we all spoke Gaelic or Welsh or Mandarin (and so did America and Australia) that would be just as good.