Nehemiah 9, and then....
Added 2024-06-03 15:28:56 +0000 UTC....we're quickly on the down hill to the end of this book. Wow! That went fast. Galatians is on deck, but we've still got big payoffs here including the mass-repentance event of Nehemiah 9.
Did you catch the Nehemiah sticker in the last post?
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I disagree wholeheartedly that the English have anything to apologize for. Nothing the English did was invented by the English or was anything that the people who were conquered by the English hadn’t done to whoever they pushed off the land when they took control of it. The Brahmins and Kshatriyas of India wound up at the top of the caste system by subjugating the Shudras and Dalits and doing to them everything that the Brahmins complain the Brits did to India. The Brahmins wouldn’t have cared if the famine in India wiped out every single Dalit and they only would have cared about it taking out the Shuras if it impacted the ability for things to get done. If the Brits had structured their system so that only the Dalits and Shudras were impacted by the famines the Brahmins and other castes would have gone about business as usual and they still wouldn’t care about it today. It’s only because the upper castes were also impacted that outrage occurred. Britain simply took the game everyone else was playing and they excelled at it and took it to the next level. The only thing unique the English did was abolish slavery throughout their empire and then through their maritime supremacy through much of the world. That is the single biggest unique contribution of the British Empire, the ending of slavery. Thats nothing to apologize for. The idea that you can apologize for something that you are not personally responsible for is frankly ludicrous and such a statement is meaningless.
Tara Slatton
2024-06-10 12:40:23 +0000 UTCSo I'm not ignoring the huge question about historic/national responsibility. I'm English and much of the world, not necessarily without reason, thinks we should apologise/make restoration for something or other. Anyway smaller side point. The KJV Bible owes much much more to William Tyndale than it ever has to King James. Tyndale was also burned at the stake.
jacqui coffin
2024-06-07 15:48:02 +0000 UTCMight have been lost in the edit or I might have misspoken. Edward was burned, and the brothers who came to the colonies were George and Valentine.
Matt Whitman
2024-06-06 15:38:00 +0000 UTCThis looks like the ancestor you talked about today, but it says his name was Edward? The family section says his grandson was named George so maybe that's the mixup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wightman P.S. I'm loving Ezra/Nehemiah. I've read it many times but I feel like I'm "getting it" for the first time following along with you 🙌
Kerrigan Joseph
2024-06-06 13:49:47 +0000 UTC
