Graeme Decarie
Well-Known Member
This should cause us to think about why we are so corrupt and evil.
Our ancestral apes and almost all wild animals to this day are not evil. It's us - though perhaps not all or even most of us.
Gorillas now - as always - do not organize themselves to kill other animals. There were and are no gorilla armies. Lions and Tigers kill - but just for food - not for conquest or glory. (And for that matter we, too, kill for food.)
But our human ancestors were quite different. Very early, they organized themselves to lead, recruit, organize and engage in mass murder. No other animal does that. The theory is that our ancestors had larger brains than the creatures around them. Some - probably not all, but some - used the larger brains to organize others to follow them and, in an organized way, to murder other creatures not just for food but as soldiers obeying their organizers, and killing in a methodical way, using this power to set up leadership and obedience and service.
Those who became leaders used their powers to get others to fight their wars and to shower them with plunder.
And that gave rise some thousands of years ago to the people who became kings and emperors.
These leaders were not necessarily more intelligent than other people. (any examination of the history of kings and emperors will prove that.) But they were the lucky ones who stumbled on getting others to kill for them. Over the years, they sold the story that the soldiers were fighting for the king (as if that were honourable) or fighting for their country - a brainless concept since they usually weren't fighting for any such things.
For king and country - yeah - bulls**t. Almost all wars in history have been fought to benefit -in various periods - kings, emperors and, in our time, super-rich capitalists.
None of this benefitted the bulk of the population. In the days of British Empire, for example, the children of most people lived in poverty, filth, hunger and worked as 25 hour a day labour from the age of five or six. As for the soldiers and sailors who built the empire, they were simply dumped on the streets when they got too old to be useful.
The enlargement of the human brain was the creation of evil. Evil had not been known in the world of wild animals.We invented it.
Forget the glory stories about war. War is, simply, evil. Wars are rarely about good struggling against evil. There was nothing good about the Indian wars of the U.S. These were wars to steal the land of the native peoples. The British, French, Belgian, American wars have all been fought to enrich the already super rich. (That, incidentally, was true of both world wars. They were, in fact, really one war. Both sides fought to benefit their capitalists against capitalists on the other side. (Forget the drivel about our concern for Jews. Canada, Britain and the U.S. were quite as anti-semitic as Germany. The whole creation of Israel was to get rid of our Jews.)
The U.S. entered WW2 because American capitalists saw their chance to displace the British, Japanese and other empires. And it worked.
And in our two thousand years of Christianity we, in our churches, have almost invariably supported the side of evil and, commonly, so has the other side.
Evil is something we humans created many thousands of years ago. And for the last 2,000 of those years, Christians have been on the side of evil.
Forget the drivel about good guys and bad guys in war. Wars are rarely caused by conflicts between good and bad. Almost always, they are about evil and evil. And our Christian churches, like the churches of other faiths, are almost always on the side of evil.
Our ancestral apes and almost all wild animals to this day are not evil. It's us - though perhaps not all or even most of us.
Gorillas now - as always - do not organize themselves to kill other animals. There were and are no gorilla armies. Lions and Tigers kill - but just for food - not for conquest or glory. (And for that matter we, too, kill for food.)
But our human ancestors were quite different. Very early, they organized themselves to lead, recruit, organize and engage in mass murder. No other animal does that. The theory is that our ancestors had larger brains than the creatures around them. Some - probably not all, but some - used the larger brains to organize others to follow them and, in an organized way, to murder other creatures not just for food but as soldiers obeying their organizers, and killing in a methodical way, using this power to set up leadership and obedience and service.
Those who became leaders used their powers to get others to fight their wars and to shower them with plunder.
And that gave rise some thousands of years ago to the people who became kings and emperors.
These leaders were not necessarily more intelligent than other people. (any examination of the history of kings and emperors will prove that.) But they were the lucky ones who stumbled on getting others to kill for them. Over the years, they sold the story that the soldiers were fighting for the king (as if that were honourable) or fighting for their country - a brainless concept since they usually weren't fighting for any such things.
For king and country - yeah - bulls**t. Almost all wars in history have been fought to benefit -in various periods - kings, emperors and, in our time, super-rich capitalists.
None of this benefitted the bulk of the population. In the days of British Empire, for example, the children of most people lived in poverty, filth, hunger and worked as 25 hour a day labour from the age of five or six. As for the soldiers and sailors who built the empire, they were simply dumped on the streets when they got too old to be useful.
The enlargement of the human brain was the creation of evil. Evil had not been known in the world of wild animals.We invented it.
Forget the glory stories about war. War is, simply, evil. Wars are rarely about good struggling against evil. There was nothing good about the Indian wars of the U.S. These were wars to steal the land of the native peoples. The British, French, Belgian, American wars have all been fought to enrich the already super rich. (That, incidentally, was true of both world wars. They were, in fact, really one war. Both sides fought to benefit their capitalists against capitalists on the other side. (Forget the drivel about our concern for Jews. Canada, Britain and the U.S. were quite as anti-semitic as Germany. The whole creation of Israel was to get rid of our Jews.)
The U.S. entered WW2 because American capitalists saw their chance to displace the British, Japanese and other empires. And it worked.
And in our two thousand years of Christianity we, in our churches, have almost invariably supported the side of evil and, commonly, so has the other side.
Evil is something we humans created many thousands of years ago. And for the last 2,000 of those years, Christians have been on the side of evil.
Forget the drivel about good guys and bad guys in war. Wars are rarely caused by conflicts between good and bad. Almost always, they are about evil and evil. And our Christian churches, like the churches of other faiths, are almost always on the side of evil.
