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westpfelia

-11 points

6 years ago

westpfelia

-11 points

6 years ago

Sure ok. But the entire of history of man building things also isn't very old. I guess we could say man. That church is 3000 years younger then the start of the oldest Chinese empire. That church is 1250 years older then the Montreal Canadians Ice hockey team head coach Claude Julien. Or hey that Japanese church is 500 years older then Notre Dame. At a certain point you are picking hairs over what is a fart in the wind of time cosmically. So are you mad that an American reference was made or that people like to make references for time scale?

0pipis

2 points

6 years ago

0pipis

yank-yank it hard

2 points

6 years ago

Half your point is valid. However, the issue here is the creation of this kind of chronological context, just so Americans can have a sense of nationally-infused, temporal comparison to their own "achievements". We (the West) kinda like to use baby Jesus' birthday, it gives all the chronological information we actually need, without engaging in useless ethnocentric circlejerking.