Presentism

 

Advisory as to the above video, it is Bill Maher after all.  As usual he has bits and pieces of truth with much dross.

 

Those who look at history not to learn, but to indict the past for not being the present.  The one bleak joy of reading presentists is to imagine what their successors will say about them and their times centuries hence.

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Mary De Voe
Thursday, July 27, AD 2023 9:52am

The Founding Fathers were honorable, truly freedom seeking men.
“And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence (God, the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier) we pledge to one another our Lives, Our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.” Our Founding Fathers had a working knowledge of sacredness.
Claus von Stauffendberg cried out “Long live sacred Germany” as he was being shot for treason. Stauffenberg, a Catholic, too, knew the sacredness of freedom.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, July 27, AD 2023 9:55am

Claus von Stauffenberg ws executed by Hitler, the Madman.

MrsOpey
MrsOpey
Thursday, July 27, AD 2023 10:26am

His face is too small for his nose (Maer).

Art Deco
Art Deco
Thursday, July 27, AD 2023 11:45am

The cancer is the amour propre of the chatterati.

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Thursday, July 27, AD 2023 4:01pm

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