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"Yes, I am saying exactly that. The murder of the elected official was precisely intended for this kind of an effect," I replied. "It was a shabby imitation, though. Rome would have been insulted, had the Romans heard me drawing this parallel. Still, the atrocities against the elected official and all the other Dalits that happened to be with him on the bus were carried out for the same reason, to hide their weakness. Their aim evidently was not so much to murder the man, but to murder what he stood for, his dedication, his humanity, and his courage. In contrast to this, the massacre of the family in your village while the father was away at work, that you told me about, was something infinitely worse."
Indira shook her head as if I was crazy to even suggest such a possibility as if the infinite crime could become still worse. "There were more people killed, I agree," said Indira. "Is that what you mean?" she asked a while later.
"No, the motive behind the massacre was worse. It was horrendously worse," I replied. "It was more base. It was something far worse than vile bestiality."
Indira still shook her head.
"You've got to look into history again, Indira," I replied. "Rome and its shadow ruled for thirteen centuries. Those centuries are now called collectively the Dark Age. At the end of that period, when things couldn't get any worse, somewhere in Europe old manuscripts were discovered of the Greek classical era, including manuscripts of Plato. With that a new dawn for humanity began. That dawn became the Golden Renaissance. The idea that dawned, surprisingly, was the old Christ idea of the divinity of man, based on the Platonic scientific method which appears to have laid the foundation for the development of Christianity in the first place. All of this was unfolding again during that great renaissance that was bringing to light a new kind of love in society, a budding universal love for the rich things of our humanity and of ourselves as human beings. The Golden Renaissance became an age of creativity and discovery, and an age of beauty with a new sense of humanity."
"But it took 13 centuries to get there," Indira interrupted. "Right now we are going backwards, not forwards. India has made itself nuclear-war capable. We won't survive 13 centuries under this shadow. America is in the same boat."
"But we don't have the reinvent the wheel," I said. "The principle of healing that brought about a great renaissance still exits. It remains as valid today as it did then. Plato's work is still valid. The principle of Christianity is still valid. The renaissance principle too, is still valid."
"Plato created Christianity and the Golden Renaissance together?" Indira asked astonished. "That's not possible. Christ Jesus came onto the scene two centuries after Plato, didn't he, and the Renaissance began many centuries after that?"
"The Renaissance was started by Plato's scientific method for discovering the truth," I corrected myself. "Out of the resulting discovery of the truth about what a human being is, which gave rise to the scientific renaissance of the Platonic era, emerged the idea of the divinity of the human being that gave rise to Christian era. The Platonic idea appears to have given birth to the long envisioned Christ idea that gave rise to Christianity that came to represent it. Christianity became the higher identity of humanity. Of course that became eventually perverted by the Roman Empire. Since they couldn't defeat the Christ idea, they perverted Christianity into a form that actually aided the imperial domination. You are right, it took mankind ages to get out of this trap, while conditions were getting worse and worse. At the darkest hours, however, of the Dark Age, the Christ idea was coming to light again by way of rediscovering the Platonic scientific method, which staged the path for discovering the Christ truth that gave birth to the Renaissance. The Renaissance recaptured the ancient Christ identity of the divinity of the human being. Of course this scientific humanist renewal once again scared the hell out of the biggest empire of the time, which at this time was the Venetian Empire. The Venetians had good cause to be scared. Their slave trading and looting empire had been nearly wiped off the map by the Renaissance forces."
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