I understand more and more why people are the way they are. It makes me despair that the human condition will ever improve. The people who lead, all to often, are the ones who are the most mixed up and only care about power and nothing else. They especially don't care about who their polices, beliefs, actions hurt. They just care about their thoughts; their vision.

Right now it is popular to attack religion, especially Christianity, as a source of human suffering. The people who attack religion ignore the fact that the biggest mass murderers of recent times were either atheists, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, or a pagan, Hitler. Yes, Hitler many times said he was a pagan.

Mark Twain wrote something like, 90% of the people just want to be left alone and live their lives and that 10% of the people are the real activists who drive events. The late President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat took that idea one step further and wrote that as long as the 90% of the people in the center support the government, the 5% of the crazies on the right and the 5% or the crazies on the left can't overthrow it.

He was right. The only mistake he made was that he underestimated the level of violence the extremists were willing to use. That error cost him his life when they assassinated him, but the crazies did not succeed in overthrowing the Egyptian government.

My point is that there will always be crazies to the left and crazies to the right and we will never achieve heaven on earth.