• Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Thanks for replying to this. This is everything I would have said, except in a far less exasperated way than I would have said it!

    I’m going to draw a line under it now though. I honestly don’t have energy to explain why a street-preacher who was active for a only a few years does not have the same quality of historical evidence as Cleopatra.

    They’re either stupid or a troll. A quick look through their profile shows a lot of posts in Danish, so I don’t think they’re stupid. Scandinavia, however, is famously home to trolls of all shapes and sizes.

    • Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      Ahaha, that’s very true Scandinavia is a mysterious place.

      Yeah the comment on Cleopatra is just laughable on the face of it haha, I didn’t even think it was worth addressing.

      Glad you’re stepping away there’s no point getting worked up on this. I normally wouldn’t have engaged to this degree myself, but I found that particular rebuttal to Tacitus to be so damn funny that I couldn’t not.

      I suspect they’re genuine, I feel I’ve been this person in the past. Sometimes it’s hard to learn to reevaluate and be wrong about things, and religion is a pretty stigmatising issue that can leave you with a lot of unresolved and misguided anger. It’s unfortunate, but human.