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lord lemmy.world Lord743@lemmy.world
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Hong Xiuquan was a Chinese religious leader who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. He led the Taiping Rebellion, which established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Death count during the rebellion? 20-30 million people...

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JayTreeman fedia.io JayTreeman@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-03
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Neat. From my understanding his claims haven't been disproven

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Neat. From my understanding his claims haven't been disproven

My claims of being Jesus' aunt also haven't been disproven

I demand recognition!

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
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Neat. From my understanding his claims haven't been disproven

I mean, there's no way Jesus wouldn't have had a bunch of siblings.

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farmgineer nord.pub farmgineer@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-25
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The family sure gets around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirisuto_no_haka

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dfyx lemmy.helios42.de dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
Joined: 2023-06-05
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I mean, there's no way Jesus wouldn't have had a bunch of siblings.

Yeah, they are mentioned by name in the bible

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October lemmy.world edgemaster72@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
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Yeah, they are mentioned by name in the bible

I was previously only familiar with his brother Craig

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mineralfellow lemmy.world mineralfellow@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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He came to believe that his celestial father, whom he saw in the visions, was God the Father, his celestial elder brother was Jesus Christ, and he had been directed to rid the world of demon worship.

While convalescing, Hong dreamed of visiting Heaven, where he discovered that he possessed a celestial family distinct from his earthly family, which included a heavenly father, mother, elder brother, sister-in-law, wife, and son.[19] His heavenly father, wearing a black dragon robe and high-brimmed hat with a long golden beard, lamented that men were worshiping demons rather than he himself, and presented Hong with a sword and golden seal with which to slay the demons infesting Heaven.

Hong left Guangzhou on 12 July 1847 to search for Feng Yunshan.[38]Although robbed of all of his possessions, including his demon-slaying sword, by bandits in the town of Meizixun

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Leviathan fedinsfw.app Leviathan@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-06-06
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I mean, there's no way Jesus wouldn't have had a bunch of siblings.

Maybe Joseph was shooting blanks and Mary stopped catching strays from her side piece after the whole Jesus thing.

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gandalf_der_13te feddit.org gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-08-01
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where does it say 20-30 million people? on the page it says he had 30'000 followers:

By 1850, Hong had between 10,000 and 30,000 followers.

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square lemmy.zip square@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-21
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where does it say 20-30 million people? on the page it says he had 30'000 followers: By 1850, Hong had between 10,000 and 30,000 followers.

Just click through to the Taiping Rebellion.

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dogslayeggs lemmy.world dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
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where does it say 20-30 million people? on the page it says he had 30'000 followers: By 1850, Hong had between 10,000 and 30,000 followers.

20-30 million people dead, not followers.

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