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Jerusalem, once in Kaesarea, and Nero finally had him beheaded
at Romeall forproclaiming Christ as God and Savior.Imagine what
Christ Himself went through:beaten, cursed, spat upon, made to
carry His Own Cross, nailed to that Cross, thenhung up and left to
die.
The Roman Emperor Nero killed hundreds of thousands of
Christiansby feeding themto lions, beheading them, or by his
favorite method: hanging them on posts and
setting them on fire while they were still alive. Pauls famous
student, Timothy,whom he left in charge of the Divine Assemblies he
had founded, was castrated,hung upside down on a cross, set afire,
then dragged through the streets for ashowto set fear in other
Christians.Moreover, I think we often forget that evenin the last
Century its not always been safe (or easy) being a believer
inChrist.
Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, they immediately outlawed
Christianity andbegan burning Churches and killing priests and
believers. By the time Lenin diedseven years later, they had killed
twenty-five million. Stalin took over andcontinued the slaughter
until he had murdered another twenty million before WWIIbegan. For
forty-five years after WWII both Bibles and Christianity were
illegalbehind the Soviet Bloc that Stalin built. Millions more died
because of their
Christian faith.For the last one
Many of the early Christians fled the Middle-East and Southern
Europe to live insafer places to the North. They often lived in
communesfor protectionand so thatthey could be in union with one
another. They would have priests who wereresponsible for studying
and holding religious services. One such commune existedupon the
coast of Ireland between 300 and 400 A.D. The people lived in rock
huts.Each day they had to get up early and spend the whole day
going about the landforaging for food. They were serious about
their faith, though, and had a priestthere to carry out services
and teach them at the end of the day.Also, many had to live in
caves and in underground catacombs.
The following quotation is from the diary of their priest: I am
tired and hungry,
and it is cold. There was very little light for study today, and
the text wasdifficult. I feel as though I have accomplished little,
but I must keepgoing.General George Washington and his troops
starved and froze during thewinters of their war to free themselves
from British tyrannythe troops wentwithout pay and without seeing
their families for years.
White settlers from the time the Vikings landed in the Americas
about the time ofChrist have had to fight off vicious attacks by
Indians (aside from the FiveCivilized Tribes who were friendly and
helpful). Several tribes are knowncannibals, and others went mad
after first seeing a White womanand attackedtraveling wagon trains
for the purpose of kidnaping them.White Europeans have beenat the
bores end of attacks by the Huns, the Mongols, and the
Turkish-Moors for
fifteen-hundred years. The Huns enslaved Whites in large parts
of Eastern andSouthern Europe.
The Mongols threw dead bodies infected with the Bubonic Plague
that they hadbrought from Asia into White forts and caused a plague
that killed twenty millionWhites in the 1300s. They also enslaved
Southern Russia for over a hundred years,as well as other parts of
Europe. The Moorish-Turks enslaved Greece for four-hundred years,
and they held Italy captive several timeseach time demanding
theirmost beautiful women as tribute.
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Pirate ships invaded all of Southern Europe in the most vicious
raids, and theytook millions of captives back to Africa over a
thousand years of invasions. Therethey went immediately into
slavery, or if they were pretty enough into a Sheiksharem. Many of
the men were enslaved in galley ships where they remained
chaineduntil they died, and then they were tossed into the sea and
forgotten.
By the formal end of the "War Against the South" in 1865 (that
War continues
against the South today in subtler ways), many Southern soldiers
were wearingclothes that had rotted off of them to the point that
nothing was left buttattered rags sewn together. They went home to
burned down homes and entire citiesdemolished and oftentimes whole
families murdered or scattered. Thousands offamily names that had
been in America for over two-hundred years were wiped
outforever.
In the South, practically every Southerners ancestors worked in
cotton millssixteen hours a day six days a weekonly to be paid in
mill script that could onlybe spent at the Mill Store. In the
planned commodity panic of 1907, Southernfarmers starved because
their crops were essentially worthless on the markets.Families
broke up. Some moved into southern cities and went to work slaving
in the
cotton mills. Others went west where they found themselves
locked out of manystates. The same happened to Midwesterners in the
1930s, when so many flooded intothe Promise Land of Californiaonly
to find that the locals detested them andwanted them stopped from
entering the state. The police thus arrested them andsent them back
Eastaway from California.
In the planned commodity panic of 1907, Southern farmersstarved
because their crops were essentially worthless on the markets.
Familiesbroke up. Some moved into southern cities and went to work
slaving in the cottonmills. Others went west where they found
themselves locked out of many states. Thesame happened to
Midwesterners in the 1930s, when so many flooded into the
PromiseLand of Californiaonly to find that the locals detested them
and wanted them
stopped from entering the state. The police thus arrested them
and sent them backEastaway from California.
Indeed, we have a lot to be thankful for both in the physical
realm and thespiritual. Society tells us that we ought to be
thankful to the government for itsbeneficence and kindness toward
usfor protecting us and providing us with anation. But I thank only
our God for all His blessings and all His gifts to usandthat,
compared to our ancestorswe today have it made.
For these things I am thankful to Him everydayall year round.And
today, yes, Imin a special state of thankfulness, as we all should
be: God Bless!
