7/24/2019 Things Not to Happen Again
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THINGS NOT TO HAPPEN AGAIN
From the very beginning of the Earth, people used to fight one
against other and to
ally with others, just for killing their mutual enemy. The
purposes for these actions
were money, power, religious reasons and influence.
George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher, said that those who
cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it. completely agree with this
!uote. "e must never
forget what happened in the past as not to repeat those terrible
events.
#m going to e$plain you how misunderstanding religious ideas
made people to kill
each other% t is strange, isn#t it& 's religious teaches us
to be kind and peaceful, to
love and accept each other, to forgive and to pray for our
fellows. (ut, unfortunately,
sometimes, in history, in The )ame of God people killed each
other.
The (ible tells us that, after The (irth of *hrist, rod, the
governor of +alestinecommanded to be killed all the babies till
years just for protecting his crown. n the
religious tradition, it is said that then were killed almost
-/// children.
'nother frightening moment was in -0- when the 1ttoman Empire
killed till -0-2
over million *hristian 'rmenians, no matter of gender or age.
3ust because
'rmenian people didn#t accept 4uslim religion. 4any historians
believe that this was
the forerunner of the 3ewish 5olocaust. Even today, The Turkish
government refuses
to recogni6e the genocide.
'nd if talked about the 3ewish 5olocaust must add it to this
list as it was the host
terrible genocide of all times. 7uring 5itler#s government, 8
million 3ews were killed in
E$termination camps. 5itler wanted to create a superior race
having a uni!ue religion
by killing the 3ewish people in bearings such as the one from
'uschwit6, where you
can see tons of skeletons of the innocent people that were
killed with no reason.
The Fuehrer told once to his friends that nobody will be able to
judge him, because
people forget immediately everything, such as it happened with
the 'rmenian
genocide. (ut, unfortunately for him, nobody forgot what he had
done, and he
remains in the history as a dark spot that will ne be
forgotten.
Firstly, one of the most recent and publici6ed events in the
European history9 The civil
war from (osnia. There in -00, the Serbians besieged Sarajevo
and practiced the
ethnic and religious cleansing, with over -///// victims in
:years. n the capital city ,
the heat and the electricity were cutted down, while all the
roads that were entering in
the city were controlled by the Serbian 'rmy. So people couldn#t
obtain any kind of
food.
n conclusion, we can say9
Those who dont knowthe past are ignorant.
Those who dont understandthe past cannot see the future.
Those who are not able to learnfrom ancestors; mistakes will
repeat them. 'gain
and again.
