All of these conditions have been met and are being met in America today. Examples would be the historical genocide of the North American Indians (and yes, this includes putting them on reservations); or the genocide of African-American or “Black” People (I hate separating people according to the color of their skin. It takes away from their humanity) both historically by White Supremacists as well as historically and currently by Planned Parenthood who has made it guiding principle since its founding to abort (read that as murder) as many Black Babies as possible with the express intent of stunting the growth of the Black population to the point of unsustainability in order to eradicate them, a principle put forth by its founder Margaret Sanger. Even today, through its targeted and manipulative ads, the abortion rate in the Black Community is roughly 5 times higher than it is among Whites. By definition this is a form of genocide, and yet I do not hear anyone on the left calling for the abolishing of Planned Parenthood. Is it then safe to assume that those on the left support the genocide of Black people?

But I digress. What do you think is the most persecuted people group, the largest group in the world suffering the effects of genocide? Possibly even moreso than the Jews? It is the Christian Church. As any biblically true Christian can tell you, there is really only one Christian Church, and it consists of every single biblically born again believer throughout the world. All part of the one Christian Church. All part of the Body of Christ, and collectively known as the Bride of Christ.

Since its founding on the Day of Pentecost in 33AD the Christian Church has experienced severe persecution, always designed to eradicate Christianity from the globe, every year since its founding. That’s almost 2,000 years of unrelenting genocide. From Saul of Tarsus capturing Christians and having them imprisoned and killed to Nero using Christians as human torches to light up the Coliseum and his feast orgies (not to mention Nero feeding Christians to wild animals for his fun and amusement), and Domitian who not only strove to kill all the Christians, but he actively sent out Roman soldiers to confiscate every single copy of the Bible throughout the Roman Empire and destroy it. From the Roman Catholic church capturing as many Christians as they could and killing them by the sword & ax, by hanging and other forms of strangulation, by burning them alive at the stake (and many other forms of killing too gruesome to mention. You can Google it if you are entertained by that sort of thing); to localized Christian genocides such as the Armenian Genocide with between 1.2 and 1.5 million Christians were put to death; and from the Muslims persecuting and killing tens of thousands each and every year throughout world to the persecution Christians receive daily here in America. It seems that true biblical Christians face more backlash, more hatred, greater misrepresentation, false accusations and lies told about it than any group in America today. The goal, as stated by many who hate God, hate Jesus, hate the Bible, and hate true biblical Christians is to eradicate the Biblically true Christian Church in America, just as others are currently trying to around the world.

Remember the United Nations Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide that I previously cited? Genocide is not simply described as killing people as many suppose. It is about the eradication of one of the protected groups (such as Christians) by any means, including inflicting serious mental harm and deliberately inflicting condition of life calculated to cause the groups destruction. We already see the efforts of the government – both state (as in California) and Federal trying several measures that are designed to thwart or stop true biblical Christians from obeying God, which they are mandated by God to do; and, when people do not obey the commands of God they are in effect denying the only True and Living God. This is what these governments want to do and are trying to do, and they are supported in this form of genocide (as defined by the UN) by vast numbers of people in America, predominantly those on the left side of the political spectrum (though to be honest there are some on the right who want us gone as well).
I don’t know how many times I have heard people – and the government – lambaste Christians, mock them, belittle them, misrepresent them, lie about, and so forth, and this includes vast numbers of progressive pseudo-Christians (who for some reason think they can rewrite the Bible and redefine God and then be the true church. They are bald-faced liars and false teachers).

All of these actions, whether committed by the President, a member of his staff, a member of Congress, or any politician; or whether it is someone in the media or other form of entertainment; or whether it is two doors down or across the street –– they are engaged in a form of the genocide of the true biblical Christian Church in America.
And sadly, it seems that no one in this country, including the politicians, really cares. When someone makes insensitive comments about Jews, Muslims, or the LGBTQ+ community, people are up in arms (well, maybe not so much with Jews as antisemitism is on the rise in America). When people mock, belittle, or blaspheme Christians and Christianity –– crickets. But, this is to be expected. Jesus Himself said, “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also. But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. The one who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me for no reason.’” (John 15:18-25 NASB95) [see also 1 John 3:13; 2 Peter 4:12-19].

If you are still with me after all of that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sometimes I will come across a news item that just pushes me into a Popeye moment, when “I’ve taken all I can stands and I can’t stands n’more!”
With that said, thank you again and may our Great and Awesome God bless you abundantly, may our Wonderful Lord Jesus Christ shine the light of His countenance upon you, and may our Perfect Comforter and Teacher, God the Holy Spirit be with you always.


[The first two installments of this series can be found here and here]

It has been proposed that there was a group of indigenous tribes here possibly even before these ancient ancestors of the North American Indians. Many scholars, such as John Haywood (known as the “Father of Tennessee History”) and Joseph Henry (the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution) are known to believe and have believed (in the cases of those passed) that an ancient race of indigenous pygmies (for lack of a better description) inhabited areas of North America. There have been several mummies and numerous graves located regarding these “pygmies,” such as those in Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, and Tennessee.
When the mummies and skeletal remains were examined, it was determined these “pygmies” were no taller than 36 inches from head to foot. Some of them closer to 24 inches tall. Their skull brain capacity was equal to that of a child 7-9 years of age (leading some to believe these were the remains of children), but their teeth were not only fully developed permanent teeth, but they showed the severe wear that is common among mature adults.

Another interesting fact regarding these North America “Pygmies” is their appearance in the traditional history of many different North American Indian tribes. The tribes of British Columbia have within their history a recognition of very small people called the “Et-nane,” and the Cherokee history which mentions the existence of the “Little People” in eastern North America; while the history of the Shoshone and other tribes makes mention of the Nimerigar, a race of violent little people who were known to be cannibalistic, living in the Pedro Mountains of what is now Wyoming. Other North American Indian tribes that recognize these “Little People” are the Ҫatōl’ltq, the Tlatlasikwala, the Tsimshian, the Tlingit, the Umatilla, the Nez Perce, the Blackfoot, the Gros Ventre, the Arapaho, various bands of the Sioux, the Omaha, the Otoe, the Cheyenne, the Zuni and the Crow (see The Little People of the Pryor Mountains who were known as ferocious little people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_People_of_the_Pryor_Mountains).
I bring up these “Little People” because none of them exist anymore. The reason they don’t is because they were victims of genocide (leading to their extinction) at the hands of those “indigenous” people who came after them. Genocide did not stop there. Many North American Indian tribes engaged in genocidal wars against other North American Indian tribes, both before and after the so-called “White Man” arrived in North America. Not only would they raid the villages of enemy tribes, killing many man, women, and children (especially babies as they swung them by their ankles, bashing their heads into trees and rocks – a quick death to be sure, but brutal and barbaric nonetheless). Many of these North American Indian tribes not only practiced the murderous aspect of genocide against opposing tribes, but they also captured survivors of their raids and enslaved them, often treating them as no more than simply dogs, and abusing them horribly. Many of these same tribes did the exact same thing to every settler or group of settlers they might come across.

As savage as these “indigenous” people were, not all North American Indians were like this. Do we use a broad brush and paint all North American Indians as barbaric savages practicing genocide, enslavement, and racism (yes, they did that too)? No, we don’t, because it would be wrong to accuse the innocent of the crimes of the guilty. In the same way it is wrong to accuse innocent “White” people of the crimes of those who are guilty of it – such as Mrs. Reid does in her appalling misrepresentation of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving.
I could stop here, and it would make the point of Mrs. Reid’s intentional ignorance of history (intentional because she could have easily done a couple hours of research and learned the truth, but she chose not to), and her public demonstration of her ignorance on national television. She should be embarrassed as any right thinking person would be, but somehow I think she not only won’t be embarrassed, but she will double down on ridiculous statements and by launching a diatribe of ad hominems against her critics.
However, since we started out talking about Mrs. Reid’s false accusation of genocide, I think it only accurate to talk about one of the longest lasting genocides in the recorded history of man, with the largest body count of all groups, and equaled by perhaps only the Jewish people. Not only have the Jews been fighting against their eradication since the birth of their people, one cannot help but also remember the Nazi Holocaust and the Soviet Holocaust (which included Jews as well as others), and the countries of Iran, Syria, and indeed most of the Middle and Near East are trying and have been trying for millennia, to eradicate the Jewish People.
Before I go on, I think it is important to establish what is meant by the word genocide, what exactly is the definition of the word? Without going into a long mostly boring lecture on the etymology of the word, it is defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, commonly known as the “Genocide Convention,” as:

Therefore, in order for something to be genocide it must first meet two conditions. First it must be against one of the following groups, 1. A national group, 2. an ethnical group, 3. a racial group, and 4. a religious group. Examples would be trying to destroy, in whole or in part, groups such as the Ukrainians, the North American Indians, “Black” people, or Muslims.

The second condition that must be met in order to legitimately be called a genocide is that the act or actions must be done with the intent to destroy one of these protected groups, and involves the five given examples above: Killing members of the group; and/or Causing serious bodily or mental harm to them; and/or deliberately inflicting condition of life calculated to cause the groups destruction; and/or imposing measure intended to prevent births within the group; and/or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.

[Part One can be found here, and Part Three here]

This is a rather long piece, so I have broken it down into three parts. Make sure your seat belts are secure and the safety bar is in the down and locked position. Remember to keep your arms and hands inside, and here we go.

Recently, Joy Reid, the host of MSNBC’s “The Reid Out,” stated the United States of America is a nation founded on violence. She said “we are a country that chooses violence over and over again”; and that the GOP (Republican Party) uses the Thanksgiving “fairy tale” to erase genocide. I must say at the outset that I abhor murder, and have an increased loathing when it comes to genocide. I believe there will be special punishment in Hell for those who commit murder and/or genocide. That being said, I would like to examine Mrs. Reid’s comments.

In one sense Mrs. Reid is correct. We are indeed a violent country, and our citizens seem to choose violence “over and over again.” We see repeated examples of this almost on a daily basis. From the thousands of shootings and stabbings, assaults and murders that happen each and every week nation-wide, to the verbal and psychological violence we experience each and every day from those around us, and those we expose ourselves to. However, while some of what Mrs. Reid says is unfortunately true, most of what she says is both false and misleading.

Was there a genocide taking place at the founding of America? Not necessarily. Now, it is certain that there were some people among the early settlers, as well as those who came later, who felt nothing but hatred and disdain toward the indigenous people – the North American Indians. They derided them, mocked them, abused them, and quite often killed them. But the Pilgrims who arrived in 1620 were a peaceful group, who quickly established a peaceful relationship with the Wampanoag Tribe, a relationship that lasted for more than 50 years, when the actions of a few individuals exploded into the King Phillip’s War (1675-1678).

Once the actual history is known, it becomes clear that what Mrs. Reid calls a “fairy tale” was actually true. Again, this does not mean that other people who were not part of the Pilgrim settlers were not hostile to the North American Indians. To be sure, there were people like that, but not the Pilgrims. In order to keep the history of America accurate here (something Mrs. Reid failed to do), the Pilgrims arrived in 1620. The actual first English colony, however, began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. But they were far from the first “White Men” to set foot in America. The Spanish arrived in 1565, and Leif Erickson, the Viking explorer from Iceland, arrived here in about 1000AD. Hundreds of years before Leif Erickson, however, an Irish explorer monk by the name of Brendan arrived in North America sometime between 512AD and 530AD. Of course there are those who believe Leif Erickson was the absolute first to arrive in North America, but they are unable to explain how in his explorations of North America he came across an Irish settlement. Maybe descendants of Brendan and his crew? But some scholars believe that even before Brendan, long before Brendan, there were Roman, Phoenician, Egyptian, and Arab traders and explorers that made it to North America.

Back to the Pilgrims and the North American Indians and the myth embraced by Mrs. Reid that the Pilgrims came to colonize North America and committed genocide against the indigenous peoples here. For many, many years, the popular teaching was that the Pilgrims killed off the Wampanoag’s by introducing them to smallpox. The problem with this theory is that there is no evidence to support it. There is, in fact, evidence that it had nothing to do with smallpox, and nothing to do with the Pilgrims.

The Wampanoag Tribe did indeed suffer a terrible disease, but it wasn’t smallpox, rather, it was a bacterial infection known as leptospirosis. The tribe suffered greatly as a result. This epidemic, however, began in 1615 and ended in 1619, all before the Pilgrims arrived in North America. While this is what the evidence shows to be true, far too many people today choose to ignore the truth and replace it with the myth of the “White Man” (naturally – for these people, to identify the alleged perpetrators by their racial and ethnic heritage, thus promoting racism and ethnic discrimination against this group), and laying the blame completely at his feet.

Again, this is not to say the North American Indians were not horribly abused and taken advantage of, and not to say they were not the victims of genocide. It is beyond question that they were. But for generations it was committed by individuals and sometimes groups of individuals; and sadly, very sadly, the eradication of the North American Indian became the policy of the United States Government. Not necessarily the people of the United States, but certainly its government. I will note briefly here that smallpox was introduced to South, Central, and North America by Spanish Explorers. In 1520 a group of Spanish explorers arrived in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Along with them was an African slave who was infected with smallpox. Before long the group, along with the slave, began exploring the North American continent, spreading the disease as they went.

Clearly then, it was not the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims also did not come to colonize North America. They were known as Separatists in their home country of England, and they were persecuted cruelly there. Many of them were thrown out of their churches, they were burdened by exorbitant fines, they were imprisoned in the most inhumane conditions imaginable, and they were executed. All for their faith, and nothing but their faith. By definition they were the victims of genocide, and they did not simply travel to America, but rather they escaped to America. The very ones that Mrs. Reid points to and accuses of genocide were actually the victims of genocide desperately trying to save their lives and the lives of their family. Would Mrs. Reid support the genocide of people for their religious belief? Does she pick and choose which genocide to condemn and which genocide to accept as good?

Again, as I have already pointed out, this is not that the North American Indians were not victims of genocide. Clearly they were. It must be understood, however, that not only were the North American Indians victims of genocide, they were also perpetrators of genocide, and they were not the first people in North America. The North American Indians are by and large descended from the Clovis People who migrated up from South America. Before they ever reached North America, however, the inhabitants of an area known as Berengia (sometimes known as the Bering Land Bridge, but far larger than you might imagine) began their migration to North America. These people initially came from what we now consider to be Siberia. They migrated to North America, along with animals such as the Woolly Mammoth and the Giant Ground Sloth and other creatures.

[Be sure to read Part Two here]

Homosexuality is Condemned by God in the Bible!

I'm sure you've heard this from so-called "fundamentalists" for quite some time. But is it true? Let's take a look at Scripture and see what it really says about homosexuality.The normal expression of sexuality is between a biological male and a biological female. This is shown in Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; and Ephesians 5:31. Any other expression of sexuality than that between a biological male and a biological female is an abnormal perversion. The Bible states that all sex outside of the normal standard is considered sexual immorality, and it is a sin that finds its roots in the sinfulness of man’s heart (Mark 7:1). The command given by God to Adam and Eve, and which extends to all biological men and biological women who are married according to the normal expression of marriage, is to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 1:28). It goes without saying that homosexuals cannot obey this command and procreate.
The Bible speaks very loudly and very clearly against the sin of homosexuality. In Genesis 19:1-29, we read that God completely destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and it is clear that this was due to the rebellion of the inhabitants against God, as seen in their demand to have homosexual relations with men sin of homosexuality (see v.5 & v.13). Elsewhere, in Leviticus we see the following:
“22 And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.”
“13 If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.” (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13 LSB)
“24 There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.” (1 Kings 14:24 LSB)
A point of contention brought up by the pro-homosexuality crowd is that we are calling for their death. They often follow this with something along the lines of “death, simply for loving someone.” Arguments such as this demonstrate their ignorance of the Bible. While God still views the sin of homosexuality as an abomination (His morals have not changed, nor will they ever), the penal aspect of this falls under the Levitical Civil Law, which applied only to the Israelites. Since the first century the Moral Law serves as an objective moral compass for mankind. The Ceremonial Law was fulfilled in Jesus, who was the final sacrifice for sin for all who believe in Him, and the Civil Law will be fulfilled in all those who reject Jesus and the salvation found only in Him, when they are cast into hell for all eternity.
Another common argument by the pro-homosexuality crowd is that Christians are being contradictory, picking and choosing or “cherry picking” (as based on their re-defining of the term), by wearing clothes made with a mixture of wool and linen, planting different seeds together, or eating lobster, crab, shrimp, and pork (Leviticus 11:9-12; 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:11). These arguments stem from their ignorance of Old Testament Jewish Law. The Old Testament laws condemning homosexuality as an abomination are part of God’s Moral Law, and are still in effect for all people everywhere. The Old Testament Laws condemning the wearing of wool and linen mixed fabric, the planting of different seeds together, and the eating of certain foods are all part of God’s Ceremonial Law which was established to keep men and women in a right standing with God (remaining ceremonially clean, etc); and were applicable only to the Jews, and only until the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus fulfilled the Ceremonial Law as the final propitiatory sacrifice for sin. While there were often Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial aspects to the various Old Testament Laws; God is unchanging*, and therefore His morality has never and will never change. It is part and parcel of who and what He is, inextricably tied to His attribute of absolute purity and goodness.

[*The Immutability (Unchangableness) of God: Numbers 23:19; Psalm 33:11; 102:27; Isaiah 40:8; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17]

The condemnation of homosexuality is not confined to the Old Testament. It also appears in the New Testament. In addition to those verses noted above where Jesus stated the normal expression of sexuality, we read in the Letter to the Romans, chapter 1, verses 18-32, God’s condemnation of those who engage in all manner of unrighteousness. Included in that list of unrighteous acts is homosexuality. In verses 26-27 we read: “26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.” (LSB)
Because these people openly reject God, and openly rebel against Him, God has given them what they want by giving them over to depravity. By specifically naming female homosexuality (verse 26) and male homosexuality (verse 27), God makes it clear that there are no exceptions. All homosexuality is considered “unnatural” and “indecent.” God goes even further by stating homosexuals receive in themselves the “due penalty” for their unnatural and indecent acts. The “due penalty” includes the numerous sexually transmitted diseases, broken lives, broken minds, and ultimately cast into hell for all eternity.
In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 we read, “9 do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.” Again, God is very specific, naming both effeminate and homosexuals. The word effeminate is translated from the Greek word malacoi, which means catamites, males who are effeminate and submit their bodies to homosexual practices. The word homosexual is translated from the Greek word arsenokoitai, which refers to a sodomite, or a pederast. Biological males engaging in homosexual activity with other biological males, including biological male teenagers.
And finally, in 1 Timothy 1:9-10 we read, “9...law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and godless, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for sexually immoral persons, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching” Here we see that homosexuals are equal to murderers, the sexually immoral, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whomever else is engaging in sinful actions. God clearly states here that homosexuals are lawless, rebellious, ungodly, unholy, godless sinners. There is no mistaking the clear and literal words of Scripture in these passages. They simply say what they say, and the only way to make them say something else is to mistranslate, misapply, and otherwise twist them. But taken literally, with the clear and explicit meaning of the words – which is the natural and normal way to read these passages, then we easily and quickly understand them.
Fortunately, homosexuality is not an unforgivable sin. This is shown in 1 Corinthians 6:11, “11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” In this verse, after condemning a slew of sins, including homosexuality, God goes on to say that some of the people He has been writing to were lost in these various sins; but, they were washed, sanctified, and justified in and through Jesus Christ our Lord and in the Holy Spirit who seals us for the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13).
Often homosexuals and their supporters will claim that “Jesus never said a single word about homosexuality.” All Christians know that Jesus is God, He is Yahweh Almighty (as is the Father and the Holy Spirit). Since all 66 books of the Bible were breathed out by God, every passage noted herein was breathed out by Jesus Christ. So yes, Jesus said quite a bit about and against homosexuality.