And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved (Mark 13:13).

Most Loved and Hated

After studying replies to 3,500 questionnaires issued to visitors in the early 1970’s, Madame Tussaud’s (London’s famed waxworks) has listed the loved and the hated. Leading the field of favorite figures was Sir Winston Churchill, voted also the hero of all time, ahead of Jesus Christ, John Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. The most hated figure was Hitler, who outranked Mao Tse-tung, Enoch Powell and President Nixon. Level in fifth place were prime minister Edward Heath, Spiro Agnew, and Dracula.
~ Christianity Today

National Name-Calling

The Japanese phrase for foreigners means “stinking of foreign hair.” What is called “the French Pox” in England is called “the English Pox” in France. In Czechoslovakia, drinking too much is “to drink like a Dutchman,” but in Holland it is “to drink like a Pole.” In Hungary and Austria, the cockroach is known as a “Swabian,” in Poland as a “Prussian” and in Germany as a “Frenchman.”

“Each nation,” reports Noah Jacobs, “associates a host of miscellaneous vulgarities, vices, diseases and disagreeable traits with foreign countries.”

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