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Aerial footage above the site of the Iranian strike on Arad, southern Israel, has been published on Israeli platforms, showing the damage and scale of the emergency response. Credit: United Hatzalah

@DailyWaterZ I like people that knows history & recount it with some touch of violence like @FolushoxFolarin 🤣🤣🤣

This is not a sound argument. What does it matter to the dead whether an act had biblical backing? Do you think an Incan slaughtered by conquistadors after the recitation of the Requerimiento would care whether the Christian God is a loving God? Or that the African slaves chained in the hold of a ship while Christian services were held on deck would take solace in such distinctions? The truth is simple and undisputable: people have committed unspeakable atrocities in the name of Christianity. That is a fact we have to acknowledge, not explain away.

We strongly condemn the hostile plots that have targeted brotherly Arab countries, from the UAE to Kuwait, which once again demonstrate that Hezbollah’s threat is no longer confined within Lebanon, but has become a direct danger to Arab security as a whole. The continued artificial distinction between a so-called “political wing” and “military wing” of Hezbollah is no longer acceptable. The group is a single entity that operates through both political means and illicit activities, undermining Lebanese state sovereignty and endangering the interests of its people. We call on the Lebanese Council of Ministers to go beyond its previous decisions and adopt a clear and decisive stance to ban Hezbollah in its entirety, without distinction or exception. We also urge the government to immediately begin implementing these decisions on the ground and to put a definitive end to the duality of arms and authority, in order to safeguard Lebanon and its position within the Arab world. We also welcome the outcomes of the Arab-Islamic meeting held in Riyadh and commend the leadership of Saudi Arabia in unifying the Arab position against all forms of threats and interference that destabilize the region. Lebanon must clearly choose its place: with Arab and international legitimacy, not outside of it.

"Anyone who affirms the Nicene Creed is a Christian." "Slaveowners were not Christians." You can't affirm both.

@nla_agba P1: That has no biblical backing, so it is not Christian. Like I said in my first reply citing the pope, that's weaponising authority. In fact, the biblical account doesn't encourage slaves to stage an uprising and

Charlogme, King of Franks annihilated thousands of "Pagans/Heathens" in Europe in the name of Christ. This is just one e.g The idea behind Crucifixion&Savation is Human sacrifice although with context; were Jews in the temple sacrificing humans before Christ or only animals?

I don’t think Christianity can be fully discounted as a factor in what became known as the Age of Enlightenment. This becomes clearer when we recognize that the Enlightenment was not a discrete epoch but the result of self-reinforcing cycles shaped by successive, often overlapping shifts in Europe’s intellectual and political landscape. One of the earliest of these forces was the Renaissance (14th–17th centuries), which marked a significant shift toward using reason, observation, and human inquiry rather than solely divine explanation to understand the world. This transformation fueled rapid progress across multiple domains, from the arts and philosophy (Shakespeare and Francis Bacon in England, Descartes in France, Erasmus in the Netherlands) to technological innovation. Some of these advancements, particularly in shipbuilding and navigation, helped drive the Age of Exploration and the expansion of European influence, producing more powerful states that would shape the next stage of intellectual evolution. Beginning in the early 16th century, the Protestant Reformation introduced another critical disruption. Sparked in 1517 by Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, it challenged papal authority and destabilized the existing religious and political order in Europe. What followed was not only theological fragmentation but also a broader shift in how authority itself was perceived and contested, eventually culminating in the Thirty Years’ War. Although the Thirty Years’ War is often framed as a religious conflict, its consequences extended far beyond theology. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) helped establish principles that would shape the modern state system, including territorial sovereignty and the right of political entities to determine their internal affairs without external interference (Trump didn't get this memo 😂). In parallel, the Scientific Revolution (16th–17th centuries) extended the Renaissance’s emphasis on reason and was reinforced by the Reformation’s challenge to established authority. Together, these developments fostered the emergence of the scientific method: creating systematic ways to investigate, test, and validate knowledge. The success of these methods transformed not only science but also broader intellectual life. The Enlightenment, often called the Age of Reason, can be understood as the application of these rational and empirical approaches to questions of society, governance, and human behavior. By the 18th century, this mode of thinking had spread widely across Europe, accompanying a gradual shift away from absolute monarchy and ecclesiastical dominance toward greater emphasis on individual rights and secular governance. In that sense, reducing Christianity’s relationship to the Enlightenment to a simple story of one-way reform misses the deeper historical reality. Christianity - fractured by the Reformation, scrutinized by Renaissance humanism, and ultimately compelled to coexist with emerging sovereign states - did not simply oppose the Enlightenment’s ideals. It helped generate the very structures of authority, inquiry, and individualism that, once challenged and repurposed, gave those ideals their shape and momentum. To dismiss Christianity from this story is to overlook one of the central tensions that made the Enlightenment possible.

Christianity itself has been deeply influenced by "Age of Enlightenment" not the other way round. This has been erroneously credited to Christianity. I wrote a thread on this sometime ago; The "Dark age" in Europe was when Christianity was its State religion.

Iran has Trump in a chokehold. This is really FAFO for US 🤣🤣🤣

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit green for Nowruz / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en vert pour le Norouz

Quebec Immigration Minister defends the province's latest immigration cut: "We don't aim to become India, we aim to become Switzerland...It's better to be 9 million rich Quebecers than 15 million poor Quebecers"

‘Geography is permanent. The GCC is going to live next to 90 plus million Iranians, whether it likes it or not, and vice versa.’ Political analyst argues that US President Trump must not allow Israel to control the war with Iran, and the GCC and Iran must foster coexistence.

This is the kind of evil that wins over good when good refuses to fight. Death is not the end, maybe it’s even their triumph that they went to God, but here in this world, everybody knows you have to fight.

Eid Mubarak 🌙 Stay in Worship 🤲🏽

Canada's postal system has issued 3 new stamps in honor of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, featuring stylized Canadian maple leaves in designs inspired by traditional Islamic patterns: linns.com/news/us-stamps…

And if we didn't talk of Gele, would that hold the war in Iran that's driving up the petrol$$? Insecurity, yes, but do we as humans not talk about a million more things? Are you not here pushing your book? Your art? Your show? Despite insecurity you still want your poem read, no?

It's a specious argument to say it's silly to talk of Gele (a marker of the spirit & ingenuity of Yoruba women down the ages), because petrol is ₦1,300. Even at the height of the Gaza genocide the Palestinian people talked about their olives & their Kuffiyeh. Come off it.

Migratory flows into the South West at the turn of the last century: the case of Ibadan.

Today, we’re evolving @StitchbyGoogle from @GoogleLabs into an AI design canvas transforms natural language prompts into production-ready front-end code. Some highlights from what’s new: 1. A complete redesign of the Stitch UI, which can now ingest multimodal references (text prompts, images, or code) as creative seeds for your design ideas 2. A brand new, context-aware design agent that can share feedback on builds, generate PRDs, and ask questions to better understand your vision. You can even talk to the agent if you prefer a verbal sounding board 3. A new agent-friendly markdown file, DESIGN.md, which you can use to export or import your design rules to or from other design and coding tools Whether you’ve been designing for decades or you’re whiteboarding your first software idea, Stitch can help you turn concepts into prototypes in minutes rather than days ➡️ stitch.withgoogle.com

The South East Pitch Competition is now open. As outlined on page 50 of the Renewed Hope Agenda, President @officialABAT committed to improving access to capital for startups and founders. This is one of the ways we are delivering on that promise. If you’re building in the South East, we want to hear your pitch. Apply: sedc.gov.ng/programs/sevcp… Deadline: March 27, 2026