Italians stoned to death in Cape Verde

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I don't know anyone pointed this out, but Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colony and the dominate religion in the country is Roman catholicism followed by a strong protestant movement.

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cv.html

 

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I don't know Gunny. We (The West) thought we were the paragon of moraly and positive behavior then in 1933 we surprised ourselves with a barbarism and a cruelty that even the ancient Huns and Mongols would have been awed at. You never know when the animal will raise it's savage head. One must be ever vigilant.

Of course. We're certainly not immune to humanity's dark side. In fact, the 20th century saw more death and destruction than any preceding century before it. The earth received hundreds of millions of corpses between Germany and Cambodia. Man's need to perfect civilization always results in bloodshed and the West proved the most deadliest.

I have theories. The cultures in Africa, Middle East, and Asia are more set in tradition or stagnation than the West, which doesn't offer much for change. Our cultures in the West had historically immersed ourselves in the slave trade and then expelled or slaughtered our immigrants to "cleanse" our societies. We have destroyed ourselves over simple defintions and then analyzed our religion and to get to a conclusion. And we have continually sought a better way to govern the masses, which resulted in disasterous failures. With change comes uncertainty and confusion. And the West is always changing.