Helen explained that this war was waged by creating two irrational counter ideologies, which were spread throughout Europe, with which the nations were set against one-another. The end result was a vicious religious war that raged throughout Europe for eighty years. "It took fifty years of ideological warfare to destroy the culture of the Renaissance throughout Europe, in order to get this religious war going," said Helen. "Once a nation's culture is destroyed, however, it takes a long time to get it back. In the mean time the war rages on. That went on for eighty years. Religious warfare is perpetual warfare. It is nearly impossible to stop it. It takes several generations of new people to grow out of that morass and rebuild a culture of peace."

      Helen said that the ideological war that destroyed the Renaissance culture, was a religious war that designed from the ground up to eradicate the newly discovered Christian notion of universal love, the lateral love, which came to light to some degree during the Renaissance. Both of the counter-ideologies promoted the notion that love is applicable only in the smallest domain, in the private domain between two people, but has no place anywhere else, certainly not in public and state affairs. Helen said that if people stood up and demanded that the state be governed by moral principles and concepts of love, the rulers of the state were enticed by the counter-philosophers of the time to stop them, and even kill them if need be. In this manner, the counter-ideologies became dominant and legitimized the rule of the strong as a law between the nations. "The real issue in that religious warfare," said Helen, "wasn't religion at all. Religion became a vehicle for the war. The issue was to destroy the Renaissance culture and the nations that represented that culture." She added that this process has not stopped to the present day.

      "Might is right, was the watchword," said Helen, "and that opened the flood-gates of destruction." She explained that this carefully created notion included the right of one imperial domain to murder the citizens of a competing imperial domain at will, to destroy their villages, their economies, their nations. And this was done for eighty years, Peter.

      Helen pointed out that during this time a whole slew of those rotten types of war-philosophers came out of the woodwork that all promoted the same insane distortion of mankind's humanity. Those were people like Thomas Hobbes and Hugo Grotius. She said that these new philosophers, these utopian war-philosophers promoted the idea that the human being is naturally evil. They proclaimed that only by this universal evil are all men equal, and that the state and its sovereign exist exclusively to protect the people from one-another and thereby from their common evil tendencies. "For this protection against each other, the philosophers said, humanity must give to its sovereign unlimited power over itself. The ruler's will, thereby, becomes absolute and must be obeyed."

      Helen pointed out that out of this philosophy the notion emerged that a citizen has no right to disobey the rule of the sovereign or the rule of the state. "We still live by this notion," said Helen. "The concepts of truth and of the sovereignty of an individual are still deemed not to exist in the so-called real world."

      Helen pointed out that in the early 1600s the notion was promoted that those who wanted to build empires had to be amoral and ruthless. This became recognized as a fundamental law. According to this new law of the nations, all subjects of an enemy power could be legally seized, enslaved, or be destroyed wherever found, including the children. Helen explained that the end result was that all of Europe was drawn into an endless cycle of wars with each other, with aggressions leading to revenge and counter-revenge for a span of eighty years. She said that the infamous Thirty Years War erupted during the last part of this eighty years cycle of antihuman madness that grew out of what began as an artificially created religious conflict.

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