It's not Me, it's You.

A life of faith is a life of doubt. Always seeking. Always questioning. Even the father of the possessed child said "Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief."

It is 'Certainty' in ideology that humankind have lost the plot, repeatedly, as history has shown.

It is 'Certainty' of superiority which led to the Muslim invasion of Christian lands and sparked Crusades to combat the invasion and enslavement of Christian Pilgrims traveling to the Holy Lands. It is this same ideology that we are dealing with today, with respect to Islamism and Sharia Law. 

It is 'Certainty' which established the Dogma of the Inquisitions under Roman Catholicism. This same ideology led to the Witch Trials of women ahead of their time in medical and nursing fields with their advanced knowledge of herblore in medicants.

It was 'Certainty' which caused Cromwell's invasion and depopulation of Ireland. He exported millions of Irish as slaves to the New World and imported Scottish Protestants, the Orangemen, to replace them. This led to the Easter Rising of 1916, Bloody Sunday, the Troubles, and the divided Ireland we have today. 

The 'Certainty' of racial superiority permeating Imperial nations led to slavery of hundreds of thousands in the New World. This was also about economy and investments. Can't have one without the other, they claimed, or the economy would collapse. This also led to the genocide of the Indigenous Native Americans. After all, they were primitive by comparison, these Natives and Slaves.

It was that same 'Certainty' which led Adolf Hitler to write Mein Kempf and his ideology of a pure Aryan race led to the deaths of 11 Million 'undesirable' and 'unclean' people under his regime, 6 Million of whom were Jews.

'Certainty' of Socialist and Communist ideology let to the greatest Democide in World History during the 20th Century. There were perhaps as many as 360 Million People killed by their governments in the 20th Century, four times as many as the 42 Million killed in Civil and International Wars. Democide is when a State kills some of the general population. Mao, Stalin, Castro, Ché, and Hitler were engaged in the most horrific Democide. Hitler, in comparison to Stalin and Mao, killed the least, but is perhaps the most well known.

'Certainty' is what leads to political factions and divisiveness which alienates constituencies from their representatives in government. This 'Certainty' led to the American Civil War in which 600,000 or more have their lives, more than the loss of life in all other conflicts and wars, combined. 

As Mao said, 'power comes at the barrel of a gun.' Let's hope America never comes to that. 

Again.

Laterz✨x