middle east escalation

[serrac]

On 16/04/2024 at 08:24, Penelope said:

Oh, come on. Religion has been around in one form or another for almost as long as us.

And...?

The Black Book of Communism, a postmortem of communist atrocities compiled by European and American academics in 1997, concluded that the human cost of genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines stood at over 94 million.

While religious wars and pogroms have been going on since time immemorial the perpetrators lacked the means to inflict death on the industrial scale we saw in the 20th century.  For example the Crusades, probably one of the biggest ever religious wars, claimed "only" 1 million lives over the course of 200 years.

Prior to the advent of Islam in the 7th century, Jews and Arabs generally lived peacefully together in most areas.  So the enmity and killings we see today didn't exist for most of human existence.

[London Best]

1 hour ago, serrac said:

And...?

The Black Book of Communism, a postmortem of communist atrocities compiled by European and American academics in 1997, concluded that the human cost of genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and artificial famines stood at over 94 million.

While religious wars and pogroms have been going on since time immemorial the perpetrators lacked the means to inflict death on the industrial scale we saw in the 20th century.  For example the Crusades, probably one of the biggest ever religious wars, claimed "only" 1 million lives over the course of 200 years.

Prior to the advent of Islam in the 7th century, Jews and Arabs generally lived peacefully together in most areas.  So the enmity and killings we see today didn't exist for most of human existence.

And what/which imaginary god did the Arabs worship before Islam invented another one in the 7th century?

[Rewulf]

4 minutes ago, London Best said:

And what/which imaginary god did the Arabs worship before Islam invented another one in the 7th century?

They were polytheistic , they had a tonne of them.

Edited April 17 by Rewulf

[London Best]

Just now, Rewulf said:

They were polytheistic , they had tonne of them.

Thanks.

[Penelope]

19 hours ago, Rewulf said:

They were polytheistic , they had a tonne of them.

As did most of 'us'.

[Rewulf]

11 minutes ago, Penelope said:

As did most of 'us'.

This is true 

[ditchman]

Israel is poking  the wasps nest......