In the shadow of King Solomon's magnificent Temple : squalor and misery and superstition and mental darkness for the masses

Browsing the Latin Vulgate -English version of the Old Testament " Kings " - I was struck with the impression that the author and his contemporaries were awestruck by this magnificent building -the work of HUMAN hands. The author lovingly describes Solomon's Temple in detail . But contrast the glory of the Temple with the almost certain misery and squalor of the Jewish people living around it . Life for them - centuries before modern science and modern medicine - was " nasty , brutish , and short " and lived out in superstition and mental darkness. In a way this most unfair concentration of dazzling wealth at least showed that MAN ( as a species ) was now much more than a brute . Perhaps concentrated POWER in the KING and the royal family could accomplish feats beyond the feeble " democracy " of the collectively impoverished common people. For many more centuries the common people , slaves and peasants , could not even read. And even if they could, printing had not been invented and precious manuscripts were no doubt off limits to the hoi-polloi . So the poorest people on earth today do indeed benefit from the AGE OF SCIENCE and modern technology. Solomon's Temple 3D YOUTUBE.COM Solomon's Temple 3D Visualize Solomon's temple in all its glory in this amazing 3D animation based on