[dbehsman]

> We are living in the age of insanity.

And this is different than the last 5,000 years of recorded history, how.....?

Well, the last century was THE bloodiest century in recorded human history. There is none other comparable. All thanks to atheistic government (fascism, communism, socialism).

[orionblamblam]

> the last century was THE bloodiest century in recorded human history. There is none other comparable. All thanks to ...

Advanced weapons and transportation technologies. If the Crusades, the Islamic invasions of Europe, the various intra-European wars, etc. had had chemical weapons, tanks, bombs and AK-47's, they woulda used 'em. Hel's belles, son, biowarfare has been used for as long as people have understood that "scary plague + dead bodies = danger." That's one of the ways in which the Black Death was introduced to Europe... plague corpses tossed over city walls via catapults. Killed a third of Europe. Not even WWII or the Commie pogroms pulled that off.