August 10
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastion Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines (Source)
Note: In 1976 "Japan completes its last reparation to the Phillippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War" (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Christian Nations - Least Racist Nations - Reparations for Previous Sins, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
A Dangerous Sort of Patriotism - Is Exposing War Crimes Disloyal? by John Pittman Hey [Text: Jeremiah 38:1-6, John 15:22-25]
Note: How about paying reparations to future generations who are going to have to live with the massive debt we're leaving them? (See state debts, and national debt, and unfunded liabilities).
But I can see that a case could be made for paying reparations for past atrocities committed by Americans. 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..."
1557 - Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French and Indian Wars of 1551-59 (Source)1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastion Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines (Source)
Note: In 1976 "Japan completes its last reparation to the Phillippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War" (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Christian Nations - Least Racist Nations - Reparations for Previous Sins, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
A Dangerous Sort of Patriotism - Is Exposing War Crimes Disloyal? by John Pittman Hey [Text: Jeremiah 38:1-6, John 15:22-25]
Note: How about paying reparations to future generations who are going to have to live with the massive debt we're leaving them? (See state debts, and national debt, and unfunded liabilities).
But I can see that a case could be made for paying reparations for past atrocities committed by Americans. 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..."
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter
Recommended video:
San Quentin, by Johnny Cash
August 11
2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
The Armenian Genocide, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: 2 Timothy 3:1,13]
