07-29-2020, 12:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2020, 10:38 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(07-29-2020, 05:28 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: It is more likely true that the Second World War was primarily a battle between two megalomaniac tyrants: Stalin vs. Hitler. Their ideologies were incoherent and their aims were mere power.
The basic idea is right. I might argue against the word incoherent.
The Bible has an entry which is more or less behold the land of milk and honey. Kill the men. Enslave the women and children. Through history there have been many a variation on that theme. You might call it immoral, evil, obsolete or other things. I don't know that it is hard to understand or incoherent. You dehumanize your opponent then take over their land and resources for your own group. We're a territorial species. We have been doing it for a long time. It is baked into us. We must understand it before growing beyond it.
Yes, the violent racist police of today are playing with the same theme. Just say no.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.