04-08-2021, 09:05 AM
I know...yours is. 
I've been doing a lot of reading and listening to podcasts on the birth and death of civilizations. Of course a lot of that involves foreigners coming in and bringing their culture with them. Especially when it is an invasion from outside the borders.
Most of human history is one group trying to take over another group because the first group wants "more" of something.
No matter what the reason for the initial contact eventually the conquering force imposes their own culture/religion on the people they have won against.
Made me wonder if any of these people ever stopped and wondered why their all-powerful god had never gone to these other places and appeared to them too.
I suppose one answer would be that the other people were too "backwards" or "unevolved" to understand the god of the conquerors. But they had a religion in all places and it seems the idea that it might be the same god just presented differently isn't acceptable and the new peoples had to change completely or, in most places, be killed.
When I read of the amount of human history destroyed because of religion it saddens me. I was taught that religion is to be used for good but the majority of our history it is being used as a tool to control people and to justify the overtaken of other people who were "different" in an attempt to "save" them.
Note: Before the usual responses start this goes beyond white/European history obviously. This is a human problem not limited to certain races or countries.
I've been doing a lot of reading and listening to podcasts on the birth and death of civilizations. Of course a lot of that involves foreigners coming in and bringing their culture with them. Especially when it is an invasion from outside the borders.
Most of human history is one group trying to take over another group because the first group wants "more" of something.
No matter what the reason for the initial contact eventually the conquering force imposes their own culture/religion on the people they have won against.
Made me wonder if any of these people ever stopped and wondered why their all-powerful god had never gone to these other places and appeared to them too.
I suppose one answer would be that the other people were too "backwards" or "unevolved" to understand the god of the conquerors. But they had a religion in all places and it seems the idea that it might be the same god just presented differently isn't acceptable and the new peoples had to change completely or, in most places, be killed.
When I read of the amount of human history destroyed because of religion it saddens me. I was taught that religion is to be used for good but the majority of our history it is being used as a tool to control people and to justify the overtaken of other people who were "different" in an attempt to "save" them.
Note: Before the usual responses start this goes beyond white/European history obviously. This is a human problem not limited to certain races or countries.
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