Murder then and Now

    The Holy Bible records Cain killing his brother Abel as the first murder in our human history. I believe in the Bible, and I also believe there were evolutionarily many, many iterations of human bipeds or whatever we were for thousands and thousands (or even millions) of years to become what Adam and Eve and the rest of what humans became, as spoken of in Genesis, possibly 4,000 B.C.

    

    I believe in the Creation of the world by God (Jehovah, Christ), and science. To me it is all true. Another truth from time immemorial is that we humans kill each other. Too much.

    In the last 100 years, or say 110 years, we have done it in industrial droves. Before that the Turks were committing genocide on the Armenians. There should be many more Armenians than there are today in the 21st century. And maybe less Turks? And more Kurds? Certainly we are missing many more Jewish than there are, thanks to an extreme German nationalism that took control for a very harsh time closer to the middle 20th century. Killers.

    Stalin and Mao, their respective Napoleons, grand sickening killers.

    Who, by what name, do we call all the killers in the Congo in the last 25 years? Whose names are those to receive the blame and opprobrium of killing, in the numbers of awful genocide, in our more recent lifetimes? We had Milosevic or Karadzavic (sp?) in Serbia, former Yugoslavia.

    Nowadays we have mass shooters that do their terrible deeds, stealing lives (a lot of them to due with THC and so-called recreational marijuana usage and abuse, and we have other killers, some because of domestic violence, some due to greed and pure evil. Gang violence, random rage incidents, other alcohol or drug-induced madness and anger. This happens enough in the United States.

    But the mass killers: North Korea, China, Russia now in Ukraine...

    We have enough problems keeping people alive through means of avoiding accidents and health issues. We do not need more killers, more murder.

    But it is a part of who we are.