God, the Enemy of the People
Today we rarely see pictures of famine in our television sets and it is only the sub-Saharan region of Africa that stills endures them. However, up until the nineteenth century, even Europe was experiencing them with some regularity. As recent as the 1840s, the potato famine in Ireland killed a million persons and forced two million more to emigrate. As for Russia, its last famine was in the 1930s and it killed about thirty million peasants. Other regions of the world have been more unfortunate. In the nineteenth century, China lost about sixty million people to famine and as recent as the 1960s thirty million more died.
The further we go back in time, the more recurrent were the scenes of starvation. Up until the eighteenth century, all nations of the world were regularly enduring famine and malnutrition.
The massive abundance of food of today is all the result of science and technology. It is farm machinery, fertilizers, and processed food that ones that have transformed a world of hunger into one of plenty.
For centuries however, whenever hunger struck, people all over the world prayed to their respective Gods, but those Gods never delivered an eatable thing.
Famine has been one of the major killers of people, easily outstripping wars. However, the amount of people that have died as a result of starvation has been small in comparison to the ones that have perished as a result of diseases.
Famines nonetheless, have been more damaging than what the raw figures suggest. The fact is that the low supply of food that prevailed through history was ultimately responsible for the majority of the deaths resulting from diseases.
During the thousand years that constitute the Middle Ages in Europe for example, famine was recurrent but it did not occur every year. What did happen every year was malnutrition because the supply of food was always low. Malnutrition has devastating effects on the human metabolism because it weakens the immune system and thus opens the door to many opportunistic diseases.
Since all religions have been constantly conspiring against science and literally killing the scientists, it is clear that the main reason why humanity experienced so much hunger for so many centuries was because of the mentally-lethargic policies of the Church. Had technology not been curtailed, sooner would have motorized reapers, computerized harvesters, and many other productivity-enhancing agricultural goods appeared.
The men of faith have always opposed not just science, but also education. That ultimately, also had nefarious effects on progress because the larger the share of the population that receives an education, the larger the amount of men that become inventors.
Religions always have it easier when a population is illiterate and ignorant. Under those circumstances, nobody contests their vision of the world, which is so filled with inconsistencies. That is why they have always accused the learned of being instruments of the Devil.
Interestingly enough, it was the men of faith who actually brought onto humanity the very things they claimed the Devil would bring onto society. As a result of their science-hindering policy, the four horses of the apocalypse (pestilence, war, famine, and death) fell for thousands of years over all nations of the world. The evidence suggests that it is them who have done the work of the Devil and not the intellectuals.
History shows that religion is responsible for the billions of deaths that through time resulted from famine and disease. Since it is also responsible for practically all the wars of history, it is evident that the number one enemy of humanity is the belief in God.
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Charles Sabillon did High School in Texas and has undergraduate degrees in Philosophy, Economics and Law as well as a masters and a doctorate in International Relations. After the PhD, he undertook post-doctoral research in the fields of History, Economics, and Ecology. He has taught Economic History at a university in Switzerland and speaks fluently English, Spanish, French and German.
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