2006-10-20 12:19:37 · 24 answers · asked by HG 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria. This may seem callous to some people but wars, poverty, cruelty torture, even genocide have always been here and probably always will. How can we single out the atrocities commited on one people over those comitted against another? Are the gas chambers truly worse than the burnings of heretics? Is the mass murder of Rwandans truly worse than of the Spartans?
The loss of all that knowledge, however, the destruction of so many unique texts, the denial of knowledge to all future generations. To me this is the truly unforgivable act.
For how can we learn from History, if we are denied all knowledge of it?
2006-10-20 14:08:16 · answer #1 · answered by ilovealandofcontrasts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holocaust 1939-1945.
2006-10-20 19:23:09 · answer #2 · answered by notyou311 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are actually two and they will be forever linked as they have been since the dawn of man.
War and religion.
Most all religions profess that God gave us a free will. But religions seem to think that free will is only valid so long as you believe what they tell you to believe. When you don't - WAR!!!!!!!
The other side of the coin is that you don't believe what religions say you must and you decide to eradicate that religion. Again - WAR!!!!!!
To all of those of you that answered the Holocaust, I ask you. what was the principle underlaying causes of that event? Think about before you give the stock answer.
2006-10-21 11:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by John K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently some people answering this question need a history lesson. Hitler's final solution only accounted for about 12 million deaths including gypsies, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, Jews, and various dissidents. While this is truly appalling, it pales in comparison with Stalin's systematic murder of 60 million of his own people, and isn't even on the radar screen when compared with Chairman Mao's slaughter of 120 million of his own people.
Its no accident that both these "league leading" mass murderers were presiding over Communist states. Because one of the first goals of communism is to outlaw religion and elevate the state itself to the level of God, one can easily see how this is the only logical conclusion to which such a move can lead. When man determines that he is no longer accountable to a divine judgment, he necessarily decends to the very depths of human depravity in his own hubris. Or as Satre so famously said, "If there is no God, then all things are permissible."
2006-10-20 23:38:26 · answer #4 · answered by john c 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A combination of three: Abraham saying "My God is the one God," Jesus telling everyone that he was the son of God, and Mohammed claiming to be the prophet of God. Millions of people throughout history have ignored common sense and believed these arrogant, ridiculous claims. The atrocities committed in the name of Judeo-Christian religion over the centuries have killed more people than every other cause of death combined. Religion has been a form of genocide moreso than a force for the improvement and progress of humanity.
2006-10-20 22:40:47 · answer #5 · answered by Kurt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When a certain species we all know gained the power of free will. It is the cause of both our greatest and most atrocious acts. With it, we can go to very dark places, but without it, we are nothing but a dark place ourselves...
So this point in time is collectively the worst and best thing ever to happen in history.
2006-10-20 20:07:45 · answer #6 · answered by thertproductions 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a matter of perspective. Most people will say the Holocaust. For those in Rwanda, they have a different answer. For those in South America, I'm sure they consider the murder of Montezuma and the subsequent raping of their nation to be the worst. For the Sioux, it was probably Wounded Knee. For the Cheyenne, Sand Creek.
It's all in who you are.
2006-10-20 20:10:49 · answer #7 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All these holocausts and massacres are terrible but it's the individual things that get to you. Like the Japanese torturing the Korean princess to death, like what the French revolutionaries did to the little son of Louis XVI.
2006-10-21 01:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Number 1 was the rejection of Christ! Number 2 is the fall of the Roman Empire
2006-10-21 23:56:05 · answer #9 · answered by Big Dave 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Holocast
2. Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. Arrival of Columbus in the 'new worid' - in fact arrival of colonizers in all of those places which became their colonies
2006-10-21 13:47:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋