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Vanity ^ | 4/19/17 | pgyanke

Posted on 04/19/2017 9:43:18 AM PDT by pgyanke

Fellow FReepers,

I am working on a new book and could use some expert FReeper researcher/knowledge help. The book is essentially about a history of evil. The 20th Century atrocities are pretty easy to summarize but I want to go all the way back to Cain and Abel.

Would you mind listing off any historical figures or events that you think show great evil down through the ages? I want to be as comprehensive as I can be and not skip things through my own lack of familiarity.

Here is a list of things that come to mind for me:

The Devil in the Garden of Eden
Cain & Abel
Tower of Babel
Sodom & Gomorrah
Haman the Agagite
Moloch
Herod Antipas
Herodias
Abimelchk
Jezebel
Herod "the Great"
Judas Iscariot
Elizabeth Bathory
Talat Pasha
Josef Mengele
Reinhard Heydrich
Osama Bin Laden
Saddam Hussein
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Eichmann
Maximilien Robespierre
Kim Il Sung
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Nero
Caligula
Attila the Hun
Genghis Khan
Leopold II of Belgium
Tomas de Torquemada
Mao Zedong
Ivan the Terrible
Idi Amin
Pol Pot
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Vlad the Impaler
Fidel Castro
Robert Mugabe
Mohammed
Margaret Sanger
Sultan Ibrahim I


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: atrocity; evil; massmurder
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To: pgyanke

Book or encyclopedia? Cathers the victims of the Albigensian Crusade which began the inquisitions.


21 posted on 04/19/2017 10:42:31 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: dp0622
>> Harry Reid stuff? <<

Did you ever watch the Movie Casino? The Dick Smothers' character (Senator) is based on Harry Reid, who was chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.
22 posted on 04/19/2017 10:50:22 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Publius; Travis McGee; LS

Ping!


23 posted on 04/19/2017 11:01:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: pgyanke

Saul Alinsky.


24 posted on 04/19/2017 11:31:14 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Zuriel
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?

Chill out. I'm not writing an encyclopedia or rewriting other books. As it should be, I have my own take on this subject to take it in a unique direction.

25 posted on 04/19/2017 11:32:11 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Noumenon

Ping.


26 posted on 04/19/2017 11:36:06 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: pgyanke

When was the democrat party created?
They have supported evil thru-out time.


27 posted on 04/19/2017 11:37:35 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: DuncanWaring

Antonio Gramsci.

CA....


28 posted on 04/19/2017 11:42:40 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: pgyanke
Interesting proposition. When you include biblical persons and events, you accept them as fact. In doing so, you must accept the moral proposition that evil is in itself, the rejection of God and his laws. Adam and Eve cast the entire human race into this mess, so they should be first. They earned it. We earned it because their sin is imputed to us all. You are just journalizing the notable historical consequences of the first.

Don't forget pharaoh of Exodus fame; Saul, the first evil king of Israel; and Caiaphas, the High Priest the led the kangaroo court sending Jesus to Pilate.

But it all boils down to the rejection of God.

29 posted on 04/19/2017 11:48:56 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: pgyanke
Maximilien Robespierre and the French Reign of Terror.

-PJ

30 posted on 04/19/2017 11:51:22 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: pgyanke

Harry Andrew Blackmun, (1908 – 1999)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Authored the Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade

A passionate advocate for abortion rights


31 posted on 04/19/2017 11:53:19 AM PDT by donna (God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Exactly. I was so tense I missed your post.


32 posted on 04/19/2017 11:57:14 AM PDT by donna (God's standards, like it or not, are the basis for the laws that led to western civilization.)
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To: Chances Are

Another good nominee.


33 posted on 04/19/2017 12:04:41 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: pgyanke

Pinochet


34 posted on 04/19/2017 12:06:37 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: pgyanke

The thuggee death cult in India and the Ishmaeli assassins of Hassan-i Sabbah.


35 posted on 04/19/2017 12:07:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: left that other site

I was going to mention that.

Sometimes it’s necessary to fight evil with evil.

Vlad Dracula in MY mind, and that of many others, is that he was a HERO. Sure, he killed a lot of his own people but, like the (EVIL) editor of the (EVIL) New York Times said about Stalin’s purges and Holdomor “To make an omelette you have to break some eggs.” He stopped the Ottoman Caliphate dead in its tracks, giving Europe time to recoup then resist again.

We consider Romans feeding christians to lions as evil, but for Roman society “Schadenfreude” was high comedic art where watching someone’s suffering at the hands of gladiators was seen as mere entertainment.


36 posted on 04/19/2017 12:07:56 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: pgyanke
Two thoughts which seem fundamental:

* You omitted earth's pre-Flood population, who had become completely reprobate (excepting Noah+7):
"The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time...Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways." Genesis 6:5, 11-12

* You omitted everyone:
"There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." Romans 3:10-12 and

"...all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God..." Romans 3:23

37 posted on 04/19/2017 12:30:52 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: pgyanke

Greatest evil: mankind nails a innocent man and holy God to cross.

Greatest good: God nails His Son Jesus to cross.

A great continuing evil often overlooked is the Arab Islamic conquest and occupation of countries in M.E. and Africa, these are Arab countries.

A media that lies about everything.

A corrupt govt that robs it citizens to enrich itself, millions of govt employees.

Everything associated with the Clintons.


38 posted on 04/19/2017 12:50:17 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

Correction: these are NOT Arab countries.


39 posted on 04/19/2017 12:54:30 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Stop it. You are taking the fun out of one writing his own unique understanding of the history of evil. The Lord God Almighty’s own testimony on evil is sorely lacking, when pride and profit are at stake.

On writing in general, Solomon was experienced in the matter:

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecc. 12:12


40 posted on 04/19/2017 1:12:52 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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