In response to a reader’s question, “insane ideologies” are by no means a 20th century exclusive.
We find them throughout history, driven mostly in those days by religious beliefs (please note the plural), rather than politics. The warfare of the Crusades that spanned over three centuries, followed by the insanity of the Spanish Inquisition, just to name a couple.
The ideologies of the Koran and the Book of Genesis are for the believers entirely, but all too often difficult to accept for a 21st century mind.
William Rauschning
Oak Bay
