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Re:Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? by treeman79 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:01PM (#24795348)
Working people up into a frenzy and giving them targets to assault is a time honored way to rise to power.

Statues don’t fight back. Real trouble is when you run out of statues.

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Re:Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? by john_Galt888 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:38AM (#24810764)
Very pointed comment. It shows these illiterate people of 700 AD who tried to apply the Quoran rules on idolatry and tried to destroy statues (surely they must have) were no different from the quasi illiterate idle but raging mobs of Portland and Seattle.
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Re:Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? by ColanR on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:29PM (#24796820)
Except in this case, it's not mob manipulation, it's calculated theology.
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Re:Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? by treeman79 on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:38AM (#24800205)
We have people tearing down statues in America.

Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

  This isn’t out of the blue, people are stirring them up.   People that have agendas.
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Re:Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statues? by ColanR on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:00AM (#24801453)
> Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

IKR? Doesn't make sense anymore. But I was talking about the parent topic, which was the theologically-motivated scratching out of the eyes of figures in mosaic images.

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