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"Violence is a constant, the religious views are just the accompanying spin"

"History is a very contemporary thing - it's ours to think about, manipulate, use to win arguments or to justify patriotism or group self-loathing, according to taste. In contrast, the past is unknowable. It's as complicated as the present. It's an infinity of former nows all as unfathomable as this one."