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[jaylake]

44 out of 72 of the world's tallest buildings are cheating - Vanity height? Really? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

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[mmcirvin]

One thing I liked about the Burj Khalifa was that it did end the simmering arguments about which building is really the tallest building in the world.

Not for long, though, I suspect.

[shelly_rae]

Vanity height should come as no surprise. People are always exaggerating the size of fish caught, how tall they are, and how long nine inches is.
Anon

[madwriter]

"Yet pseudo-historian David Barton..."

Barton is the same pseudo-historian responsible for most of the pro-Christian fake Founding Father quotes on the Internet, many by invention or paraphrasing to what they "really meant", to passing along older fakes ones like the Washington quote about the Bible being the best basis for government.

Christian history isn't what many Christians think it is anyway--not if you read the ancient Christian historians. They'll point out to you that Revelation was written by neither John the Apostle or John the Baptist, but John the Presbyter, someone else entirely...and add that most Christians didn't care much for Revelation until the 4th century anyway. They'll tell you that Mary had other children, and that decades later Jesus' nephews were persecuted by Domitian Caesar. They'll admit that the early Gospels weren't named, but were given names based on tradition linking a particular Apostle's missionary "region" to what Gospel was the most popular in that region. And so on.