are you an out of the closet atheist?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

the modern world has actually been getting less violent overall, and that WWII was actually an exception to the rule.

This is the kind of 'thinking' that makes me despair.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

the modern world has actually been getting less violent overall, and that WWII was actually an exception to the rule.

This is the kind of 'thinking' that makes me despair.

Genocides and wars in the twentieth century killed a comparable number of people to how many were alive on Earth at any given point during the Crusades.

But Progress! Forwards - to the Future!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

the modern world has actually been getting less violent overall, and that WWII was actually an exception to the rule.

This is the kind of 'thinking' that makes me despair.

Genocides and wars in the twentieth century killed a comparable number of people to how many were alive on Earth at any given point during the Crusades.

But Progress! Forwards - to the Future!

You say that as if the idea of 'Progress' was always supposed to exclude pesky little necessities like the odd massacre.

Can't make an omelette without wiping out a few small villages, I suppose.