Life is Depressing

Reading about Ottoman history, I ran into the story of the Batak massacre in which thousands of Christians were beheaded, or impaled or burned alive in the Bulgarian town of Batak by Muslim Bulgarians (Pomaks) recruited by the Ottoman Empire. In reading of this horror, I think about all of the horrors that I’ve heard about, and its a further step towards the awareness of evil being all around us:

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