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They threw Christians to the lions in ancient Rome and two thousand years later, followers of Jesus Christ are still persecuted around the world in Muslim and Hindu nations like Pakistan and India, as well as places in Africa such as Nigeria.
We Americans tend to think of persecution and martyrdom only as something bloody and tragic that happens in other countries, without much concern that it could ever happen in the same way here, to us.
Think again.
The pieces are steadily being put in place to inaugurate what will begin as mere restrictions that inevitably, given human nature and the Left’s worship of power and control, will become outright persecution of anybody who doesn’t toe the Left’s line. It will then only be a short-step to something much worse.
UpdatedThu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:12 pm ET
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U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler conceded the runoff election to Senator-elect Raphael Warnock on Thursday. (John Bazemore/Associated Press)
GEORGIA U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler on Thursday conceded defeat in the runoff election to Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, who will become Georgia s first Black senator when he takes office later this month.
The Republican senator called Warnock, a Democrat, to congratulate him on his victory as continued election results show the vote totals for both her race and that of outgoing Sen. David Perdue fall outside the state s margins for a recount. Loeffler trails Warnock by about 80,000 votes.
SHEMOT | The Journey Begins Senator-elect Raphael Warnock, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
וַיָּ֥קָם מֶֽלֶךְ־חָדָ֖שׁ עַל־מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע אֶת־יוֹסֵֽף׃
A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. Exodus 1:8
כִּ֥י יָדַ֖עְתִּי אֶת־מַכְאֹבָֽיו…וָאֵרֵ֞ד לְהַצִּיל֣וֹ׃
I have known their sufferings…So I have come down Exodus. 3:7-8
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The book of Exodus begins by showing us Pharoah-nature, the nature that
cannot sit where other folk sit in order to feel what they feel, the nature that closes its heart to others’ suffering. Torah presents us with one of the burning questions of our time, of all time: How does transformation of suffering occur? How do we humans affect the formless Creator of Genesis, the Flow of Life that is Eternally Present, so that there is sitting “where other folk sit in order to feel what they feel.“