why is it so important to teach history? No one realy realy learns from it or is smart enouph to care.my proof is jihad the people in this realign are being missled into beleving god wants us to kill each outher and comit murder onto each other. This organisation has no respect for them selves or anyone else. If this is god being great then I can safly say there is no god.
2007-01-28 08:23:28 · 9 answers · asked by David M 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We can learn from the mistakes and successes of our ancestors. Just because most people ignore history doesn't make it less valuable. (BTW, there is no god.)
2007-01-28 08:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nothing that humans do, ever, is starting from a "clean slate". That is because everything that you do, everything you encounter, every object you see or touch or use, every belief you run across, started with something else.
How can you possibly understand how you got *here* without knowing what led up to it?
Do you actually think that the only thing about jihad that we need be concerned with is the here and now? Does it make no difference to anyone that there are events and circumstances that lead to other things?
How are you going to fix something if you don't know how and why it got started?
Do you have any idea bout the history of the United States' manipulation and interference in the Middle East?
Talk about not learning from history - the United States hasn't learned from our own sordid history of thinking that we can have everything our way through economic manipulation and threats.
2007-01-28 17:52:36 · answer #2 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If people had a better grasp of history they might not be so easily drawn into conflicts that work against their best interests.
People in power count on the fact that most people don't know Jack about history, instead they allow some talking head on the TV to think for them and just parrot what they hear.
Even after two government sponsored reports that show otherwise, people who watched Fox News still thought that Iraq had something to do with 9-11, had ties to Al Queda and had WDMs.
2007-01-28 18:20:01 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOVE OF HISTORY TO LOVE THINE ENEMIES
Does religions care for history, do they even think the bible is right in history?
I love history in the time, but the acts of people, Jesus has a plan to save all possible.
Adam was created 6073 years ago, and Abraham was born 4065 years ago, by him all nations are to be blessed of Ishmael, of Isaac to Jesus, of the 6 sons by Keturah.
This is the good history.
Abraham would surely cry over the bad history of relative killing relative that are from him.
The land pirates back in his time were from the family of Noah 352 to 525 after the flood.
Gen.8:21; The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.
Moses at 897 years after the flood [ or 3520 years ago ], had Abraham's relatives from Isaac and Jacob, in the Promised Land, taken from the land pirates after 897 years in time, people that would not give them a drink of water. Now HEIRS are at a place where each can have a garden spot and water. A nation that had to have the help of God. Be feed manna from heaven Josh.5:6,10,12 WHAT A HISTORY?
Ishmael was loved by Abraham and God, he with his family, and Esau with his family, seemed to do very well, the same as Abraham and Isaac. Jacob and his family and Job were the targets of Satan, after 907 years Babylon Empire #3 ends kings.
THERE WILL BE NO KING UNTIL JESUS AT HIS SECOND COMING.
2007-01-28 17:28:04 · answer #4 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We learn from our past (or we should), and knowing the past helps us understand the here and now. If those parts of the world embroiled in centuries old conflicts of revenge, retaliation and retribution really knew and understood just old and how costly these wars have been, they might not be so willing to continue them. You hear people impatient for democracy to take hold in Iraq, but if they knew their own history, they'd know that our present government wasn't even our first attempt--we had to struggle under a Confederacy for 10 years before coming up with our present government. And our battle to keep religion out of government comes from the Founding Fathers familiarity with having to belong to a particular church just to hold office or to have any say in government. History is important. The first thing dictators do is to burn the History books. What does that tell you?
2007-01-28 16:33:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's just make up our own.Sure why not?
There are ,many people who claim that Jesus is a myth. If there was ever someone who is rock solid as as living historical figure it is Jesus Christ. Again there is people who claim the holocaust never happened when there are many Jews walking around with the numbers still on their wrist. I guess I'm a myth too, if you don't like what I answer here.
2007-01-28 16:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure I wouldn't want to hear about anything from a guy with a 7'inch top hat that is nicknamed "honest Abe" if he has never seen a plasma screen TV.
2007-01-28 16:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Histiry is about learning where you come from. Unfortunately many people believe the crimes of the past justify the crimes of the present.
2007-01-28 16:26:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Not sure who said it, but it is most certainly true.
2007-01-28 16:30:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋