Claude Vorilhon Quotes
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
Vorilhon, Claude. Yes to Human Cloning: Immortality Thanks to Science! Tagman Press, 2001.
What is interesting is that when he cites the dreadful facts about American slavery, he never points out that the American slave traders rarely raided the villages and captured the slaves themselves. Most often this was done my Khamenei’s Muslim brethren slave traders who dominated the slave trade in Africa. Nor does he point out what after realizing the evil that Americans perpetrated with slavery, we ended it in the 1860s. Saudi Arabia, the central nation of Islam, did not make slavery illegal until 100 years later, and even today, there are many Saudi’s who get caught practicing slavery with household servants and forms of indentured servitude. And while Christians and the Bible tolerated slavery, the Koran and the Prophet never once condemn the practice of slavery. Democracy at any point in time is not always morally right, but it is a process by which under pressure from the people it improves over time because the people can change it and do.
This quotation distressed many ultra rightists who otherwise were avid followers of Mises. See {632407} for another quotation that distressed many European conservative devotees of Mises.
White Africaners were slaughtering Blacks to appropriate their land in violation of English law. See {583901} for a related quotation.
Raël is a French journalist who founded and currently leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
