Once upon a time, most of what is called the civilized world was frozen. After the fall of Rome, Europe devolved into feudalism and an overriding Roman Catholic church. The clerics controlled all knowledge and the average person was just to show up, take all the sacraments, and pray a priest was around when you died. And you could be labeled a heretic and killed or outlawed. Life did not change much , in most of the world, for a thousand years or more.
Meanwhile, Muslims were expanding as fast as possible into as much area as possible. This is what the religion teaches..take over the world for Allah. ( app. 700=???) Which led inevitably to conflicts. the crusades, stories of leader on the front lines such as Vlad the Impaler, fighting against the Turks…certainly a bloody era. It is hard to say when Islam stopped the drive into Europe, as the Ottoman Empire stood until WWII. Some efforts ceased very early, whole other Islamic groups did not truly fail until 1800-1924. Meanwhile, Europe entered a natural frozen period. It’s called the little Ice Age and it lasted from 1500 to 1850 or so. It changed where some crops were grown. It led to famine, it led to plagues, (the Great Plague of London was 1665.) It led to such low population numbers in Europe, political change was just around the corner. Noble misuse of peasants, too few people to get income from their lands…..demanded a rethink. The Magna Carta was signed in the 1200’s. For the first time, those not of the noble class had rights. Exploration paid for by various kingdoms of the West, began in the 1500’s. The desperate, the religiously oppressed, and those with a desire for new wealth were finding ways to other countries. The King James Bible, published in 1611, was a major breakthrough; people could read the texts for themselves. Of course, the question is..how many could read? Henry the VIII broke with Rome, and the bible in print furthered the progress of Europeans, breaking the hold of the church and the priests over their lives. Martin Luther and others would follow. As the ice dams began to break, with new countries and opportunities, enough wealth to start industrialization, the retreat of Islam, the ending of the severe cold, there was a flowering of humanity (at times with brutal treatment of the poor and the native peoples..the new aristocracy did not care what it cost to achieve their wealth…) Two different mindsets emerged, One was freedom to worship as you saw fit.Democracy, charity, hard work..all values of this mindset. And one was the pursuit of science. This usually meant relegating all religion to a myth and elevating the “scientific method” as the only way to study and then apply to common problems. As the Catholic church vigorously opposed any science that conflicted with world views they espoused, it is fairly logical for “science” to extend to things like literary criticism, where all ancient documents were looked at for literary integrity and “dumped” as altered, not actually written when the authors stated etc. The inerrant Word of God was sent to the trash heap. Darwin actually had a mission to find a naturalistic cause for the world; he intended to unseat religious explanations. His answers, a competitive world red of tooth and claw, was soothing music to white Europeans who felt they were the most advanced, and now could say evolved people on the planet. They “deserved “their wealth, their political control.( Read Guns Germs and Steel…Europe had advantages of territories and supplies, that allowed their rise. Not intellectual superiority.)The horrific misuse of Darwin’s work, eugenics, is still haunting our political processes today. It is still taught as science, though not one part of his theories stand or are actually used by scientists in their research. There are no missing links, no hierarchical trees, and even genetics is proving surprisingly stubborn in not revealing the record the scientists want. Genes appear across species, not just in species. Lateral appearance ..the theory changed endlessly, but it’s still called Darwinism. And is taught as fact. We have an agenda taught to our children to this day, not much different than obedience to church and king of the middle ages. Once the process of breaking down the current form of government, democracy, began, even as it spread (and overturning ruling dynasties such as Russia and China) and the finding of oil in the Middle East, once again allowing Muslims to form powerful militaristic governments, war was inevitable. The 20th century, saw 200 million people die in war or as a result of war. Some countries were able to access massive amounts of raw materials, employees, shipping, to begin a conquest of the world via economic might (usually backed up by military might.) With the unusually warm weather from the 1930’s on, more crops were grown..and new farming techniques employed, This rise of agrarian corporations has more or less leveled off with the ending of this warm period about 18 years ago, the fall of the Soviet empire, and a round of droughts worldwide. Now we turn eager eyes to science to solve those problems. Medical science made major advancements in ending our most common problems with immunizations and antibiotics. While antibiotics are increasingly ineffective and immunizations need serious work, we act as if medicine can solve all our problems including..death.. We we have drugs and surgeries to cope with the problems of being in a human body. We worship medical science, research science, even social science. We have abandoned our freedom for security.,perhaps a natural sentiment given the nature of our populations, aging and increasingly dependent on science and government to remain alive, while our young workers struggle with finding jobs, debt from education, and an increasing tax load. Governments want to break the control of religion..again . that is exactly what the so called liberal agenda is about, rather than actually addressing inequality (civil rights movement, women being allowed to vote, etc) The wealthy are protected in Western civilization, eager to participate in the new governments coming about, while the unrest of the young, the poor, etc. is political fodder for the current system (oligarchy, not representative democracy) science is controlled to give results that the current owners ( yes, just like feudal Europe) want or what earns them money, and the Catholic church is making attempts to once again control religious belief.. They want to expand to ALL believers, and this is not the first time,witness the changes to Christianity after Constantine endorsed it as the state religion. This time, they are tying themselves to Goddess worship...again,,in putting planet before people. While Islam insists their time has come. And liberals extend the lifestyle of the wealthy, in the forms of technology, sexual freedom, and altered states whenever one wishes, to all, and with no regard to consequences. We worship at the feet of Eros, of Progress, and Convenience, we think we are one job or one lottery ticket or one orgasm away from bliss. Animals with big brains. But the wealthy will get the benefits of new government, of new technology ( brain implants? DNA altering treatments? Perfect athletes or soldiers..slaves, altered enough to be considered not-human and therefore property? Where do you think that tissue from aborted babies is actually going?) And the rest of us will be left in the swill of the broken world, only allowed to exist if we are “useful.” State controlled euthanasia, limited births, the hope of this world system being, I think to replace most jobs with technology. Eugenics at its finest. The ignorance or deliberate misuse of history regarding Islam may further these goals. Or may prove to be the biggest mistake the West has ever made, still believing we are superior and can utilize war to control those oil fields at last. Russia as an empire re-emerges, and may control the outcome far more than the rest of Europe (the US is European derived and determined to return to its mother, at this point.) At any rate, no political system will stay under the thumb of religion for long. That too is historically factual. Be it the Catholic church or Islam, these entities will be overthrown. Israel can survive a war with Islam, they have before, but their insistence on being a holy people chosen by the One God will certainly be a thorn in the side of the new rising aristocracy and the new all-encompassing religion. As they have been a thorn on the side of every major world power who ever tried to control them. We are entering a new Ice Age where all heretics will be destroyed ( those who question climate change, social change, the new morality, all of which serve to control the masses..the producers of wealth, to keep the new leaders in their wealth and co0ntrol) Truth has never been a common thread in human history, and if the truth of Jews and Christians is quashed…little remains as a balance to “progress at any cost.” Until the number of humans becomes so low even the makers of the world understand there is a problem, or wars, or natural events, upset some plans, nothing will change. We will remain high tech aggressive and self-centered beings, controlled only by fear of the government. Natural enemies to attack as the “problem” would be …Jews and Christians. We are reliving cycles of history and never ever learning the lessons we need to. How can I state this abbreviated human history as fact? Because it is all in the Bible. Which you can read for free via the Internet. I’ll let you figure out what will end this next frozen period of history. |
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