Posted on 04/19/2017 9:43:18 AM PDT by pgyanke
I think a key thread in history is human sacrifice and the movement of history against it. So that links up Abraham, and Jezebel, and Moloch, right up to Cortez and the Aztecs.
You can point out that people don’t always grasp their role in the dance, they just do whats in front of them.
Charles Manson
Known mafiosi and they would do sadistic things and laugh about it, like kicking an old man they robbed down his cellar stairs.
who the hell knows what the Triad does.
The Westies were Irish and would use cut off hands left in freezers to use at crimes they committed for the fingerprints.
Sure the Russkies have some good stories.
Albanian, Israeli mafia pretty brutal too.
Barack Hussein Obama and his cronies.
Rachel Carson
I know we can learn from the mistakes off others, but that sounds depressing. And you want to profit from what is already spoken enough of in thousands of books?
“..Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matt. 6:34
How about a book that brings to light good deeds through the centuries, that hardly anyone has heard about?
La Cosa Nostra...........
The Romanian Christian People might dispute your characterizing Vlad in that category.
Most of the “impalees” were moslem invaders of his country.
You left out the Assyrians like Sennacherib. See here for a good review of torture.
http://faculty.uml.edu/ethan_Spanier/Teaching/documents/CP6.0AssyrianTorture.pdf
Timur also known as Tamerlane
Add Che Guevara with Fidel.
“Known mafiosi and they would do sadistic things and laugh about it, like kicking an old man they robbed down his cellar stairs.”
I’ve become a Mafia expert because of the Harry Reid stuff I do. The guy to look up is Sam Destefano for being sadistic. Mentor to Tony the Ant Spilotro.
The Inquisition.
Interesting. Thanks.
What Harry Reid stuff?
Tamerlane the Magnificent.
Ivan the Terrible.
Torquemada/The Inquisition
Idi Amin Dada
Pol Pot
Ho Chi Minh
And a cast of thousands ...
Justice Blackmun.
So essentially you want to write a history of mankind.
Man’s existence is the struggle between good and evil
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