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World History and Me
World History and Me Last night I watched a documentary about the “discovery” by Europeans of the Western Hemisphere – that vast tract of land between Europe and the India that the spice-hunters sought. In my childhood, that discovery was … Continue reading →
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Tagged 10 commandments, 16th century advances, 17th century colonists, advances in navigation, advances in ship-building, advances in world trade, adventurers, American good guys, American guilt, ancient Israelites, animal nature, australopithecines, biblical battles, Biblical historicity, Bronze Age cities, cherem, chosen people, co-religionists, collective atonement, collective guilt, collective penance, colonization, conquest of the weak, conquistadores, Darwinians, defeat of the weakest, depopulation, discovery of America, European diseases, European exploration, European massacres, evolutionary survival, exile, explorers, extinction of hominids, fossil record, genocide, God's blueprint, God's people, God's sovereignty, hegemony, historical guilt, Homer, hominid competition, hominids, homo erectus, homo naledi, homo neanderthalensis, homo sapiens sapiens, hypocrisy, idol worship, indigenous peoples, interpersonal aggression, Israelite wars of destruction, Jesus, Maccabees, man as animal, manipulative moralizing, missionaries, moral high ground, moral posturing, moral rank-pulling, Native Americans, natural defenses, Nazi bad guys, Nazi language, New World, niceness and brutality, Nietzsche, non-fiction narrative, non-violence, Old Testament God, organized pogroms, pagan ways, Pentateuch, personal history, pioneers, policing language, political theory, pre-Columbian population, promised land, psychological self-defense, Queen Isabella, religious non-violence, religious violence, Roman hegemony, securing territory, small pox, survival of the fittest, survival of the strongest, territorial defense, theory of history, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Torah Study, Trojan War, TV documentary, violence, virgin continent, virtue signaling, voyage of Columbus, war of all against all, will-to-power
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“Chivalry”
Chivalry John Adams, who was the second president of the United States, wrote: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” At present, the people of the … Continue reading →
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