{"id":13708,"date":"2023-02-19T00:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2023-02-19T00:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:22:49","slug":"cruelty-in-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13708\/cruelty-in-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty in This World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As I listened to some of last night\u2019s fireside chat, I couldn\u2019t help but think of how Africans were treated so cruelly. The dehumanization you talk about was exactly how their shipment from Africa to other parts of the world shackled and in quarters similar to those of cattle, living in their own feces and given just enough sustenance to keep enough of the \u201cgoods\u201d from perishing was justified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Economics motivated the slavery operation and was then justified by \u201cscience\u201d that said things about Africans similar to what Hitler and his regime said about Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The cruelty of man truly knows no bounds <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12113\" src=\"https:\/\/pjhmail.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/06\/smiley-with-tears.png\" alt=\"smiley with tears\" width=\"31\" height=\"31\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Allison<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>That is so true, Allison.\u00a0 Slavery has always been around, but the English\/American form of it was horrific.\u00a0 And according to the angel who stood at the foot of my father&#8217;s bed one night, God was very displeased.\u00a0 The angel gave a warning to my father to the people in this country, &#8220;from the president to the peasant&#8221;, saying that &#8220;the white man stole the black man from the land God had given him.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>It hurts my heart to think of black mothers forcibly separated from their little ones, and the many other ungodly cruelties those slaves suffered.\u00a0 But God saw each one, and we can be assured that &#8220;a book of remembrance was written&#8221; for them all.\u00a0 Because of God&#8217;s perfect justice, nobody &#8220;gets by&#8221; with any evil deed.\u00a0 And thankfully, because of that same justice, every good deed will also have a reward.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I listened to some of last night\u2019s fireside chat, I couldn\u2019t help but think of how Africans were treated so cruelly. The dehumanization you talk about was exactly how their shipment from Africa to other parts of the world shackled and in quarters similar to those of cattle, living in their own feces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}