Persecutor

	A critical history-book and a contribution to the enlightenment. Why “great people” in world history became Persecutors or why they were persecuted. Impressum: Herstellung und Verlag: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt ISBN-13:9783842382756 © 2012 Roland Fakler 348 Pages/ Paperback / on the bookmaket 21,90 €uro also available as E-book 17,99 Euro Interview deutsch / english
For at least five years I have worked on my main work. Now it is available in German and English. What is the reason why the so-called great people in history turned into persecutors, if they had the power to do so, and why were they often persecuted, if they fought against spiritual restriction and sought new ways of thinking as freethinkers and cultural workers? After all, why do people come to persecute others? This central, ever and ever recurring problem in world history, I want to highlight in this book and help so to advance the enlightenment one-step further. Its about an ancient and eternal topic, a topic which I consider the most important in world history, a topic that pervades the whole history and has shaped it decisively. It is about freedom and tyranny, about happiness and misery of people and nations, about just and unjust rule. This book is about clarifying, to what extend somebody was a persecutor or was persecuted or to what extend he has added a spiritual contribution to the persecution of others. This book is about the question: how persecution arises, how it is justified and above all, how it can be restricted or prevented. The book wants to arrange easy readable fundamental history-knowledge, confirm this knowledge with quotations, show connections and come to conclusions. Table of Contents Preface How do I use the word “Great” The Problem Divine Persecution Jehovah - Jahwe - Allah Allah Akhenaten / Amenhotep IV The Babylonian God-Kings Alexander Caesar The Roman Caesars Christianity Jesus Paul The Persecution of the Christians The Fragmentation of the Christians Constantine Constantius II Theodosius I Theodosius II The Church-fathers Augustine Clovis Islam Muhammad Islam and Human Rights Today The Spread of Islam The Christian Occident Charlemagne The Aberrations of the Popes Megalomania and Persecution-fury The Crusades The Conversion of the Pagans The Fight against the Heretics The Jews The Inquisition Jan Hus, The “Witch Craze” Luther Zwingli Calvin Cromwell The Puritans Quakerism Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day Giordano Bruno Galileo and Darwin Ivan The Terrible Machiavelli Louis XIV Voltaire Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg Schiller About artists and their problems Lenz Hölderlin Kleist Büchner Cézanne Van Gogh Rousseau Beckmann The Enlightenment Relapse into Tyranny The French Revolution Napoleon Restoration and Revolution Nietzsche Bismarck The most terrible of all Centuries Hegel Wilhelm II Fascism Colonial Empires Hitler Communism Marx Lenin Stalin Mao GDR “Church” of Scientology, Current Threats: Lessons learnt from history How to handle strong men! What is a good religion? The final Revelation The Development of Human Rights The most important sources: Index The Autor

A critical history-book and
a contribution to the enlightenment.

Why “great people” in world history became
Persecutors or why they were persecuted.

Impressum: Herstellung und Verlag: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt

ISBN-13:9783842382756
© 2012 Roland Fakler

348 Pages/ Paperback / on the bookmaket 21,90 €uro

also available as E-book 17,99 Euro

Interview deutsch / english

For at least five years I have worked on my main work.

Now it is available in German and English.

What is the reason why the so-called great people in history turned into persecutors, if they had the power to do so, and why were they often persecuted, if they fought against spiritual restriction and sought new ways of thinking as freethinkers and cultural workers? After all, why do people come to persecute others? This central, ever and ever recurring problem in world history, I want to highlight in this book and help so to advance the enlightenment one-step further.

Its about an ancient and eternal topic, a topic which I consider the most important in world history, a topic that pervades the whole history and has shaped it decisively.