The Dark Ages
‘What were the Dark Ages, Dad?’
Dad looked thoughtful and sad.
‘A time of ignorance when things were bad.’
‘When did the Dark Ages end?’ she asked.
Dad looked at her with face aghast.
‘We don’t know how long they’ll last.’
Opher – 20.7.2019
We tend to look back at history and wonder how people could do such things, believe such things and behave so cruelly. We see them as primitive, foolish and brutal.
They are no different to us.
We live in the same ignorance and the same level of vicious depravity. We never learn.
I was looking at the butchery of the timid dolphins and porpoises in the Faroes and seeing the same vicious bloodlust and inhumanity. It’s still there unchanged. I look at ISIS, the Baptists from the Southern States, The Creationists, Boko Haram and all the others and see the same blind ignorance and belief in scriptures from barbaric times.
The Dark Ages – we’re still living them. Oh for a bit of light!
It’s a bad idea to follow anything blindly. It’s important to think independently and logically.
I agree Pooj!! I try to do my best.