Kendra S. Horn: “As we near the dawn of a new millennium, many people have begun reviewing the events of the past 1,000 years. In the…”

“As we near the dawn of a new millennium, many people have begun reviewing the events of the past 1,000 years. In the year 1000, Europe was only just beginning to rise from the Dark Ages, but the advances of the enlightenment were still centuries away. Life was still brutish and short, marked by random violence and terrible purges from time to time. We like to look at history and see a steady improvement in the condition of mankind. We would prefer to believe that humanity today bears little resemblance to the near barbarism that marked the last millennial change. Sadly, as we narrow our focus and look back at the 20th century, we see that many of the horrors that marked the 10th and 11th centuries still exist in our world. This century has seen horrors on a scale that even the cruelest leaders of the beginning of this millennium could not have imagined. More than 100 million people have been savagely murdered in this century. It is disheartening that many in the present day continue to hide or diminish these events of sheer terror.”