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
Book or encyclopedia? Cathers the victims of the Albigensian Crusade which began the inquisitions.
Ping!
Saul Alinsky.
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.
Ping.
When was the democrat party created?
They have supported evil thru-out time.
Antonio Gramsci.
CA....
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.
-PJ
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
Exactly. I was so tense I missed your post.
Another good nominee.
Pinochet
The thuggee death cult in India and the Ishmaeli assassins of Hassan-i Sabbah.
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.
* 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
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.
Correction: these are NOT Arab countries.
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
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