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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

tbf, manifest destiny was originally an american idea

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The Promised Land was originally God's idea.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

God was originally the idea of bossy humans, though.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it's more likely that the idea of a god or gods originated with humans who consumed psychoactive plants, fungus, and/or ergot-infected grain. Hardly the bossy types.

Over time though, the idea caught on and got popular, until most people had heard of or generally believed in it. Then some tightwads came in and decided that people couldn't get high anymore, so those folks had to take their drugs to secret caves and such.

Meanwhile, the tightwads appropriated the proto-religious ideas and codified them into stricter religions in order to pacify the masses who over generations had come to believe in such things as gods, and thus religions were converted into instruments of social control.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

The Promised Land was originally God's idea.

Strangely, it was the idea of every God that every religion has ever conceived of.

[–] newtraditionalists@beehaw.org 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're right. The Dutch, and the Spanish, and the English, and the Romans were all totally content with what they had.

[–] Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Not to defend the horrifying Spanish Empire, but it didn't contain genocide of natives as a tenet. It enslaved people, spread diseases and wars, and murdered millions upon millions, but go to Peru and you'll see that at least it didn't reach the goal of extermination to the degree that happened in North America.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And the lord said..."Let there be might!".

[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

GREENLAND BELONGS TO THE NORDS!

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I would guess Mormonism might make claims like that.

[–] JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They make way funnier claims like the garden of eden was in Missouri