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