And we have often discussed that when murders occur in small numbers it is called a crime and it’s punished by justice, but when murders occur on a larger scale, they are not punished, unless you are on the losing side.
Heinous massacres have gone down in history like this or that, but the person that ordered these massacres has been deemed a hero on many occasions and has received recognition and awards for his deeds.
And they still go to bed at night satisfied that today they performed God’s work. But is the following list, really, God’s work?
Mongol conquest | 5,000,000 dead |
Napoleonic Wars | 6,500,000 dead |
American Civil War | 625,000 dead |
Spanish Civil War | 500,000 dead |
World War I | 9,911,000 dead |
World War II | 61,000,000 dead |
Korean War | 3,500,000 dead |
Vietnam War | 3,900,000 dead |
It is well known (Sun Tzu doctrine) that if you want to avoid having to face the next generation of your enemies’ worriers, the most effective way is to destroy the offspring.
Many campaigns (like the infamous Biafra campaign of the Nigerian civil war) resulted in the complete and utter extinction of the opponent including women and children.
Or is it something completely different? Something in our genetic make-up that we have never thought about? Could it be that we have been programmed to slaughter each other as a method of controlling population overgrowth?
If this is really the case, then the current booming of the population should come to an end and pretty soon. This is an awful possibility to consider. If we are indeed driven by some kind of manipulation to reduce our population to more manageable numbers, then it might not be long before we experience the Third World War…
And based on the mathematical analogies from the previous wars, we are talking about casualties in excess of 150,000,000 people dead as a result of the battle operations, bombardments, and sieges, and an incalculable number of people that will not be able to reproduce afterward due to the aftermath.
These thoughts can lead to another horrific conclusion. For the religions that stipulate expansion through “blood and fire”*, this is truly God’s work. If that’s true, then we worship the wrong Gods.
Why is it that the worst massacres in human history have been performed by Christians killing each other?
Unless, of course, it is God’s work and God’s command to control the population overgrowth that is hidden in the sacred texts and no scholar has ever even thought of it.
* “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Surah 9:5)
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Surah 9:29)
“O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty.” (Surah 9:123)
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We need war--human population is 7.4 billion and counting with no end in sight.
Everyone who feels the world population is to high you are free to end you life at anytime. Demanding the end of others lives is selfish at the least, evil at worst.
Well that's just ridiculous b/c the instinct to survive won't just let people off themselves b/c of overpopulation, but the reality is, there are not enough resources and it's up the each country to trade with what they have, or innovate and survive, or don't.
I find it interesting that you attack Christianity in this article, yet fail to say anything at all about Islam? There have been 10 Christian extremist events in the last 10 years that made headlines. Yet there has been literally thousands of Islamic extremist attacks in that same time frame? I actually enjoyed the article until the bit about Christianity... I'm not a Christian, however ignoring the 500 lb gorilla in the room is getting quite a bit old. As a recipient of Islamic violence on multiple occasions I'm a bit disgusted by the global need to ignore and downplay the violence associated with the religion.
If there is, as I'm inclined to believe, a global population control in practice, whether genetically programmed or consciously executed, then I don't believe this is something that needs discussion. Our population growth is indeed unsustainable, but who is to choose who gets to live and who dies? As long as it's not the fundamentalist fanatics like ISIS and the Evangelicals, I'd say it hardly matters. Rather, the more people grow aware of it, the worse off we'll all be.
Have you ever played Medieval II: Total War, or something simmilar? War is clearly a great way to control overpopulation and make profit at the same time. Human settlements with too much people get overload of problems, and the soft, planned reduction of population takes too long and is much harder to do. War makes profit for the winner, expands the territory and reduces population, and war also advances technology. Most great innovations we see today started as war machines, like the internet, satelites, radio waves, etc. It's not that bad. We're all going to die sooner or later, and we pratically evolved to survive in war scenarios. Actually, people love war. Look how much people are talking about war on terror, war on immigrants, war on social problems, etc. Life without war is boring.