A special thanks to Wikipedia.com for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com (July 1)
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.Recommended sermon:
Recommended sermon: Thomas Hooker and the Doctrine of Conversion, by Pastor Iain Murray
1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
Recommended podcasts:
- The Problem with Lincoln - Interview with Dr. Thomas Dilorenzo, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
- The Impact of Washington and Lincoln, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America
1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
Here is a short excerpt from Howard Zinn's The Twentieth Century (referring to the Spanish-American war):
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..."
Recommended podcast: One Nation Under Allah: What's Wrong with Sharia? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Recommended podcast: Worst Presidents: Reagan, Bush Ford - Fiscally Irresponsible Presidents, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
2017 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.[5]
Recommended Video: Barry McGuire, Eve Of Destruction - A Classical Musician’s FIRST Listen and Reaction
- Roll Out the Nukes: The Risk Level Just Went "Way Up" and Trump Warns "We'll Be Very, Very Tough" if Russia Doesn't End the War - endoftheamericandream.com
- Total War Against Civilians is Never Justified - lewrockwell.com
- Assassination in Sarajevo: How Terrorism Triggered a World War, by Dr. Peter Hammond
- Were the Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? by Dr. Peter Hammond
- Oppenheimer, Trump and the Bomb - The Wrong Worldview, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
- Nuclear War, Romans 3, and the Nature of Man - Is Nuclear War Survivable? by Pastor Kevin Swanson
- "In the blast that follows, a fireball spreads out over the target zone. It travels at one hundred times the speed of sound, rendering it silent. One-millionth of a second later, the people of Hiroshima began to incinerate."
- "But Enola Gay is safe. All twelve men on board are alive. In six hours they will celebrate with whiskey and lemonade and spend the night far from the hell they have just created."
- "The next day the chilling results of what the young officer saw from the air are reported on Japanese radio: 'Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death."
- "[President] Truman's face lights up. 'This is the greatest thing in history...'"
- "'Thank God for the atomic bomb' is a common refrain among American soldiers and sailors, who have been dreading the blood-bath sure to come if American troops invade the beaches of Japan. To many of them, the bombing of civilians is not an issue - it's payback for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
- "Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing the house down with his final comment: 'My only regret is that we didn't develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.'"
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The following quotes are from Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's book, Killing the Rising Sun:
