What we’re watching occur live in the Middle East, being made, willingly or not, casual witnesses to unthinkable death, destruction, and brutality at all levels, thanks mostly to efficient news outlets, only serves to remind us, brutal man v. man violence is what makes the world go round.
But not to worry; the current pledged extermination of yet another people (genocide), including women, children, elders is but a sad reenactment, a typical representation of inhumanity at it’s worse.
This continuation of incomprehensible human behaviors acted out against fellow humans, with calculated proficiency, dates back to pre-Hammurabi’s legions, evolving to spectacular (despicable) events as church sponsored witch hunts, accounting for an untold number of dead women (and men); dead by way of burning alive at the stake, boiling alive in vats of oil, and the (always entertaining) pouring of boiling oils, by the priest himself, into orifices, including eyes, mouth, and vagina, and yes, while she was yet alive.
Of course, because hunting down and disposing of a witch was expensive, the woman’s, excuse me, the witch’s land, home, livestock, and bank accounts were seized to offset the expenses incurred by the church.
The priest and his entourage had to be fed and housed, and the professional torturer, contracted to deal with the witch, had his fees, required implements of torture, and, of course, travel expenses.
The whole nasty affair was not cheap. The event could and often would take on a carnival atmosphere, drawing most of the village residents, as the physical torture of the alleged witch took center stage (the public square).
Typically beginning with lashes using fresh, wet leather straps, the relentless striking continued until the helpless woman succumbed to unconsciousness. Revived, the careful application of thumb screws, the ever popular leg crushers, and, of course, pouring of the boiling oil in such a way as to cause blood curling screams of agony, and, not surprisingly, dare I say, miraculously simultaneously causing instantaneous conversion of non-believers in the observing crowd; true and eager believers who now raised their hands in sanctimonious heart felt prayers and hymns.
The grand finale found the hapless lass strapped to a pole, the infamous breast rippers strapped to her chest, each slow turn of the screws digging, raking, pealing her flesh from her ribs, leaving her breasts dangling in evidence of what evil looked like defeated by Holiness.
Unbelievably, still alive, the damned witch was ignited to slowly burn to the cheers of the now blessed on-lookers.
While these witch hunts, the acts of these most Holy of God’s servants were great for promoting God’s tender love of the meek and obedient (this category did not include women as women were, at the time, considered the agents of Satan, the very gateway to Hell itself), the Holy man, unrestrained, allowed his imagination to conjured up other effective (popular) methods to assert peace on Earth; as we are witnessing in the Middle East today.
The Holy Crusades were instrumental in ensuring ALL men, women, and children bowed and prayed as demanded by this unseen, unheard, omniscient perfect LOVING god, and as enforced by sinless knights (mostly Catholics) in shiny armour. Those opposing these perfect chosen knights (mostly Muslims), literally lost their heads. One such knight, Sir Reynald de Chatillon, a.k.a., God’s Wolf, was listed as possibly the most notorious crusader to have swung a sword in the name of righteousness.
For large scale elimination of disobedient peoples, fine upstanding (modern) righteous men devised cleansing atomic bombs, which were dropped on highly populated, major cities.
Granted , these bombs lacked a certain preciseness as to who exactly was being eliminated, but let’s be honest, war is not a precision endeavor; besides, the resulting mushroom cloud with it’s fallout was pretty damn impressive!
This “Kill ’em! Kill ’em all! Let God sort them out!” (allegedly from the Albigensian Crusade) mentality was also evident with the spraying of copious amounts of deadly chemicals on adversaries (peoples who dare to think and believed differently than God’s people, whoever they are).
Agent Orange and napalm (an ingenious highly flammable sticky gasoline and soap jell concoction that would stick to and burn whatever it contacted) were “chemical weapons” used in Southeast Asia, as well as other conflicts.
In that these poisons were sprayed indiscriminately over villages, farm lands, and forests, harboring innocent women, children, and elders, the effective elimination of countless (Godless) Heathens, all true threats to Holy democracies (undefined) was accomplished.
The heathen babies napalm didn’t reach were eventually killed by incendiary bombs, flamethrowers, rifle fire and bayonets.
So, to be clear, presently, the Isreali, the self-proclaimed chosen patriarchs of everything Holy and sacred, ARE NOT raining deadly chemicals upon the infidels (yet), they’re only raining hospital and elementary school leveling bombs and rockets, and quite effectively, racking up a whopping 12,000 body count to date (mostly) dangerous and threatening women, children, and elders. But the best news is plenty of other perfect Christian governments have the Isreali’s backs.
The undeniable fact remains: man is, and will forever be, a warring species. A species that has no problem, in fact, thrives, feeds, salivates on physically punishing, battering, butchering, inviscerating, incinerating, even crucifying another man, boiling a Satanic linked subhuman woman, eviscerating a newborn baby, for no other reason than to prove he can.
Even in domestic existence, man always has, always will fine reason to batter, rape, murder the woman he loves to hate, loves to dominate, loves to punish for no other reason than he’s a man and she’s not.
When this occurs within a marriage, a boyfriend/girlfriend, father/daughter senario, then the beating becomes an excusable, simple crime of passion. (Go figure.)
The sad bottom line here is man will NEVER exist in benevolence with other humans.
If you are one of those who requires historical evidence to believe what you read, Google the European/US witch hunts, the Nanjing Massacre, the Holy Crusades, and, of course, the genocidal efforts of invading Europeans against the Indigenous people of Turtle Island (a.k.a., America), which dwarfed the later efforts of the Nazis genocidal efforts against the Jewish people.
If you like/prefer docu-films, check out City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, 2011), an award winning documentation of the Nanjing massacre.
The bottom line is any and all nations/governments built on the ever popular (brutal) invade, conquer, and colonize philosophy are unstable and subject to eventual replacement by an (inevitable) stronger internal and/or external force.
The Philippines is the perfect example of a (Spanish) occupied nation regaining their independence; they later expelled the Americans as well. The Vietnamese repelled their French colonist (French Indo-China) and American forces, who were further supported by Australia, New Zealand, France, the UK, Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines. The country is struggling after it’s (almost) 20 years of war, but reportedly improving.
Indigenous citizens are watching the American government fall apart at the seams internally, which begs for recital (by many indigenous nations) of those three words of encouragement: “Never say never!”
Have a peaceful day!
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