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Vertical thinkers read mankind's stories—and consider how our violent
and immoral failures must be reversed. They want the vertical change of
man looking up to God. They hope not for just a better world, but for a completely better
world. They pine for the time when the true Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth,
will return to the earth to completely change the nature of things.
This is the story of man, wolf and lamb.
"Man is a wolf to man" is an ancient Latin proverb that describes the warlike animosity and predatory nature that people exert against each other—individuals against individuals, nations against nations. In essence, mankind is wolflike.
If you know a little history, you know how apt the lupus (Latin for wolf) label is for human nature.
University of Hawaii professor emeritus Rudolph Rummel (author of Power Killsand Death by Government) has researched the numbers of people murdered by their own governments throughout history—not including battle deaths or criminal punishment. In the 20th century alone he estimates that rulers exterminated 262 million of their own subjects.
He cites Shakespeare's famous and somber lines about the violent perversity of mankind: "Tumultuous wars shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound; disorder, horror, fear and mutiny ... and this land be call'd the field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls" (Richard II , act 4, scene 1).
Dr. Rummel's research does not study deaths caused by wars with other nations. Other experts reckon upwards of 160 million war deaths from 1900 to 1999. With Germany's Hitler, the Soviet Union's Stalin, Japan's militarists, China's Mao and their other dictator "friends," the 20th century was phenomenally wild-natured and predatory.
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