Christians not only killed pagans, they were very good at anihilating each other in most gruesome ways but thats a history that always gets the fog treatment. Here is where we see one of the fundamental calls of religion, to escape from reality of history, which itself is the great revelation. Its natural byproduct of fear of the unknown & death, the human mind seeks to flee and escape, this is also fundamental & why the arguments persist with such vehemence. Because this parallels a creatures need to survive, to challenge these fantasies is to pose some imaginary demise and those are fighting words in any animal kingdom, could very well end in your death.
History (and life) itself is the great revelation, this we know gets easily ignored & cherry picked according to who's faith it is, which region & which deformation of minds we're talking about. So again, especially today we see Darwin was right, this need for flight & escapism would easily be predicted in each & every territorialism. As would the submitting to mass delusion at the expense of true history, its imagined playing field where your imaginary souls life is at stake. Or the promised lands, hunting grounds for which one fights & dies for, but this is history/reality & goes all the way back to primates & beyond. |
