July 1st, 2024 News.

  

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics lasting from July 26, 2024, to August 11, 2024, in Paris, France is a very important occurrence among the human family. Events will take place in 16 other cities spread across Metropolitain France too. There will be one subsite in Tahiti which is an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia. The motto of the Games is Ourvron grand les Jeux or "Games Wide Open." There will be 329 sports in 32 sports. The opening ceremony will take place in the Jardins du Trocadero and the Seine. The closing ceremony will take place at Stade de France. Paris, France was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on September 13, 2017. The International Olympic Committee also awarded Los Angeles with the 2028 Summer Olympics too. Paris won the bidding process competing against Hamburg, Boson, Budapest, Rome, and Los Angeles. Paris is the second city to host the Summer Olympics three times as Paris hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924. London also hosted the Olympics in 1908, 1948, and in 2012. The Paris Olympics of 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924 and Chamonix 1924 (marking the centenary of the Winter Olympics). There are many items of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics like the debut of breakdancing as an Olympic event. It will be the final Olympic Games held during the IOC Presidency of Thomas Rich. The 2024 Games are expected to cost 8.4 billion euros. The development and preparation of the 2024 Olympics were very extensive. Most of the Olympic events will take place in Paris and its metropolitan region like the neighboring cities of Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles, and Vaires-sur-Marne. 

The basketball preliminaries and handball finals will be held in Lille, which is 225 km (140 mi) from the host city; the sailing and some football games will be held in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, which is 777 km (483 mi) from the host city; meanwhile, the surfing events are expected to be held in Teahupo'o village in the overseas territory of French Polynesia, which is 15,716 km (9,765 mi) from Paris, the host city. Football or soccer (to us from the States) will also be hosted in another five cities, which are Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne, some of which are home to Ligue 1 clubs. The Grand Paris zone has facilities for field hockey, rugby, sports climbing, boxing, modern pentathlon, and other events. The Paris Centre zone has places like the Parc Des Princes with soccer, the Stade Roland Garros with tennis and boxing finals, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles (with volleyball, table tennis handball and weightlifting), Hotel dev Ville, Bercy Arena, and other places. The Versailles zone has the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles with equestrian and modern pentathlon (excluding fencing rounds), Le Golf National with golf, the Elancourt Hill (with cycling and mountain biking), and the Veldrome de Saint-Quentin en-Yvelines (with track cycling and BMX racing in cycling). There are other places where other sports will take place too like Parc Olympique Lyonnais and Roucas Blanc Olympic Marina in Marseille. 

Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games logo engraved into it. Approximately 5,084 medals would be produced by the French mint Monnaie de Paris, and were designed by Chaumet, a luxury jewellery firm based in Paris. The reverse of the medals features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, inside the Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Parthenon and the Eiffel Tower can also be seen in the background on both sides of the medal. Each medal weighs 455–529 g (16–19 oz), has a diameter of 85 mm (3.3 in) and is 9.2 mm (0.36 in) thick. The gold medals are made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals are made up with copper, zinc, and tin. Europol and the UK Home Office with help France with security during the Games. The British Army will have Star streak surface to air missile units for air security too. Paris police did rehearsals with their bomb disposal unit before the Games. 

As a part of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani's visit to France, several agreements were signed between two nations to enhance security for the Olympics. In preparation for the significant security demands and counterterrorist measures, Poland has pledged to contribute security troops, including sniffer dog handlers, to support international efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of the Games. The Qatari Minister of Interior and Commander of Lekhwiya convened a meeting on April 3, 2024, ahead of the Olympics, with officials and security leaders, including Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sheikh Jassim bin Mansour Al Thani to discuss security operations. The Paris 2024 volunteer platform for the Olympic and Paralympic Games was opened to the public in March 2023. There were expected to be 45,000 volunteers recruited worldwide for the Games. 

The Olympic torch relay began with the lighting of the Olympic flame on April 16, 2024, in Olympia, Greece, 100 days before the start of the Games. Greek rower Stefanos Douskos was the first torchbearer and swimmer Laure Manaudou served as the first French torchbearer. The latter was selected to be one of four captains of the torch relay, alongside swimmer Florent Manaudou (her brother), paratriathlete Mona Francis [fr], and para-athlete Dimitri Pavadé. The torch relay is expected to have 10,000 torchbearers and visit over 400 settlements in 65 French territories, including six overseas. On May 18, 2024, it was reported that the portion of the relay in New Caledonia was cancelled due to ongoing unrest in the collectivity.

The city of Paris is the capital and largest city of France with about 2,102,650 people in an area of more than 41 square miles. Paris is the fourth largest city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated in the world in 2022. We know Paris to be a major location of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy. It has a large culture of respecting arts and sciences. There are world prominent locations in Paris like the Eiffel Tower near the Seine River, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, Pantheon, Arc de Triomphe, Palais Garnier, The Louvre, and other locations. The motto of the city of Paris is Fluctuat nec mergitur (or Tossed by the waves but never sunk). Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world and the busiest outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Paris has one of the most sustainable transportation systems and is one of only two cities in the world that received the Sustainable Transport Award twice. Paris has a long history. The modern city of Paris was mentioned in 1st century B.C. It was mentioned by  Julius Caesar as Luteciam Parisiorum ('Lutetia of the Parisii'), and is later attested as Parision in the 5th century AD, then as Paris in 1265. During the Roman period, it was commonly known as Lutetia or Lutecia in Latin, and as Leukotekía in Greek, which is interpreted as either stemming from the Celtic root *lukot- ('mouse'), or from *luto- ('marsh, swamp').

The name Paris is derived from its early inhabitants, the Parisii, a Gallic tribe from the Iron Age and the Roman period. The meaning of the Gaulish ethnonym remains debated. According to Xavier Delamarre, it may derive from the Celtic root pario- ('cauldron'). Alfred Holder interpreted the name as 'the makers' or 'the commanders', by comparing it to the Welsh peryff ('lord, commander'), both possibly descending from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *kwar-is-io-. Alternatively, Pierre-Yves Lambert proposed to translate Parisii as the 'spear people', by connecting the first element to the Old Irish carr ('spear'), derived from an earlier *kwar-sā. In any case, the city's name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. The Parisii was a sub tribe of the Celtic Senomes people who lied in the Paris area from ca. the middle of the 3rd century B.C. The Romans conquered the Paris Basin in 52 B.C. THe area was called Lutetia then later Paris. The first Christian Bishop of Paris was St. Denis of the middle of the 3rd century. Paris saw Clovis the Frank or the first King of the Merovingian dynasty. Paris was made his capital in 508. Paris saw Charlemagne, the sacking of it by the Vikings in 845, the Hundred Years' War (when Paris was occupied by the English and Joan of Arc tried to liberate the city in 1429. The English occupied Paris until 1436). 

In the late 16th-century French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic League, the organizers of August 24, 1572, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in which thousands of innocent French Protestants were killed. The conflicts ended when Henry IV, after converting to Catholicism to gain entry to the capital, entered the city in 1594 to claim the crown of France. This king made several improvements to the capital during his reign: he completed the construction of Paris's first uncovered, sidewalk-lined bridge, the Pont Neuf, built a Louvre extension connecting it to the Tuileries Palace, and created the first Paris residential square, the Place Royale, now Place des Vosges. In spite of Henry IV's efforts to improve city circulation, the narrowness of Paris's streets was a contributing factor in his assassination near Les Halles marketplace in 1610. Paris saw kings, the French Revolution, Napoleon, the liberation of Paris during WWII, the Charlie Hebdo shooting, transporation growth, and protests. Therefore, the Paris Olympics will be filled with great strength. 

 

COVID-19 is a coronavirus disease. Many have give it many names, but it is a disease caused by a virus named SARS-CoV 2. It can spread very quickly. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained that CO stands for coronavirus, VI for virus, and D stands for disease, while 19 stands for the year, 2019, that the outbreak was first detected. As such, there has never been a "COVID-1" or any other "COVID-" series disease with a number below 19. On February 11, 2020, the WHO named the disease COVID-19 (short for coronavirus disease 2019). That same day, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) formally announced it had named the causative virus as SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) based upon its genetic similarity to the 2003 SARS-CoV. The separation between the disease and the causative virus is based on the same nomenclature policies that separate AIDS and the virus which causes it, HIV. Racists from The Epoch Times blame the virus on the CCP or the Chinese Communist Party. The Epoch Times is a far right newspaper and media company linked with the cult Falun Gong new religious movement. At the end of the day, the virus is COVID-19. 

 

There are many symptoms of COVID-19 depending on the type of variant contracted, ranging from mild symptoms to a potentially fatal illness. Common symptoms include coughing, fever, loss of smell (anosima), and taste (ageusia). Other symptoms are headaches, nasal congestion, runny nose,  muscle pain, sore throat, diarrhea, eye irritation, and toes swelling or turning purple, and in moderate to severe cases, breathing difficulties. People with the COVID-19 infection may have different symptoms, and their symptoms may change over time. Three common clusters of symptoms have been identified: one respiratory symptom cluster with cough, sputum, shortness of breath, and fever; a musculoskeletal symptom cluster with muscle and joint pain, headache, and fatigue; and a cluster of digestive symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. In people without prior ear, nose, or throat disorders, loss of taste combined with loss of smell is associated with COVID-19 and is reported in as many as 88% of symptomatic cases. Many people with the coronavirus have no symptoms. At least a third of the people who are infected with the virus do not develop noticeable symptoms at any point in time. These asymptomatic carriers tend not to get tested and can still spread the disease. Other infected people will develop symptoms later (called "pre-symptomatic") or have very mild symptoms and can also spread the virus. As is common with infections, there is a delay, or incubation period, between the moment a person first becomes infected and the appearance of the first symptoms. The median delay for COVID-19 is four to five days possibly being infectious on 1-4 of those days. Most symptomatic people experience symptoms within two to seven days after exposure, and almost all will experience at least one symptom within 12 days. Most people recover from the acute phase of the disease. However, some people continue to experience a range of effects, such as fatigue, for months, even after recovery. This is the result of a condition called long COVID, which can be described as a range of persistent symptoms that continue for weeks or months at a time. Long-term damage to organs has also been observed after the onset of COVID-19. Multi-year studies are underway to further investigate the potential long-term effects of the disease. 

The complications can include pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), multi-organ failure, septic shock, and death. Cardiovascular complications may include heart failure, arrhythmias (including atrial fibrillation), heart inflammation, and thrombosis, particularly venous thromboembolism. Approximately 20–30% of people who present with COVID‑19 have elevated liver enzymes, reflecting liver injury. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pregnant women are at increased risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID‑19. This is because pregnant women with COVID‑19 appear to be more likely to develop respiratory and obstetric complications that can lead to miscarriage, premature delivery and intrauterine growth restriction. Fungal infections such as aspergillosis, candidiasis, cryptococcosis and mucormycosis have been recorded in patients recovering from COVID‑19.

 

COVID-19 is mainly transmitted when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets/aerosols and small airborne particles containing the virus. Infected people exhale those particles as they breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or sing. Transmission is more likely the closer people are. However, infection can occur over longer distances, particularly indoors. The transmission of the virus is carried out through virus-laden fluid particles, or droplets, which are created in the respiratory tract, and they are expelled by the mouth and the nose. There are three types of transmission: “droplet” and “contact”, which are associated with large droplets, and “airborne”, which is associated with small droplets. If the droplets are above a certain critical size, they settle faster than they evaporate, and therefore they contaminate surfaces surrounding them. Droplets that are below a certain critical size, evaporate faster than they settle; due to that fact, they form nuclei that remain airborne for a long period of time over extensive distances. COVID-19 can damage the respitaory system and the nervous system. Many people with COVID-19 exhibit neurological or mental health issues. The virus is not detected in the central nervous system (CNS) of the majority of COVID-19 patients with neurological issues. However, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected at low levels in the brains of those who have died from COVID‑19, but these results need to be confirmed. The coronavirus can harm the human kidneys too. 

COVID‑19 can provisionally be diagnosed on the basis of symptoms and confirmed using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or other nucleic acid testing of infected secretions. Along with laboratory testing, chest CT scans may be helpful to diagnose COVID‑19 in individuals with a high clinical suspicion of infection. Detection of a past infection is possible with serological tests, which detect antibodies produced by the body in response to the infection. Swabbing, nucleic acid tests, CT-scans, and other tests can determine COVID-19 on a human being or not. 

 

The Statue of Liberty has a long history. According to the National Park Service, the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: "If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort—a common work of both our nations." The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870. In another essay on their website, the Park Service suggested that Laboulaye was minded honoring the Union victory and its consequences, "With the abolition of slavery and the Union's victory in the Civil War in 1865, Laboulaye's wishes of freedom and democracy were turning into a reality in the United States. In order to honor these achievements, Laboulaye proposed that a gift be built for the United States on behalf of France. Laboulaye hoped that by calling attention to the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to call for their own democracy in the face of a repressive monarchy."

According to sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's alleged comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi. Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye. Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects; in the late 1860s, he approached Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build Progress or Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia, a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said. Sketches and models were made of the proposed work, though it was never erected. There was a classical precedent for the Suez proposal, the Colossus of Rhodes: an ancient bronze statue of the Greek god of the sun, Helios. This statue is believed to have been over 100 feet (30 m) high, and it similarly stood at a harbor entrance and carried a light to guide ships. Both the khedive and Ferdinand de Lesseps, developer of the Suez Canal, declined the proposed statue from Bartholdi, citing the high cost. The Port Said Lighthouse was built instead, by François Coignet in 1869. Bartholdi was involved in the Franco-Prussian War as a major of a militia. Bartholdi worked with Laboulaye to discuss the idea of the State of Liberty with influential Americans. By June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye. Bartholdi went to the New York Harbor and wanted Liberty Island to be the site of the statue. He gained support from President Ulyssess S. Grant after he visited him and other human beings. Bartholdi and Laboulaye waited before using a public campaign. Bartholdi made the first model of his concept in 1870. He would be inspired by his 1880 Lion of Belfort sculpture. 

By 1875, France had political stability and the Centennial Exposition was coming up. So, Bartholdi and Laboulaye sought public support for the creation of the Statue of Liberty. In September 1875, he announced the project and the formation of the Franco-American Union as its fundraising arm. With the announcement, the statue was given a name, Liberty Enlightening the World. The French people were to finance the statue (contrary to the common misconception of it being funded by the French national government); and Americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal. The announcement provoked a generally favorable reaction in France, though many Frenchmen resented the United States for not coming to their aid during the war with Prussia. French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life. Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by the composer Charles Gounod. The piece was titled La Liberté éclairant le monde, the French version of the statue's announced name. American and French people raised funds to help construct the statue. Although plans for the statue had not been finalized, Bartholdi moved forward with fabrication of the right arm, bearing the torch, and the head. Work began at the Gaget, Gauthier & Co. workshop. In May 1876, Bartholdi traveled to the United States as a member of a French delegation to the Centennial Exhibition, and arranged for a huge painting of the statue to be shown in New York as part of the Centennial festivities.

On March 3, 1877, on his final full day in office, President Grant signed a joint resolution that authorized the President to accept the statue when it was presented by France and to select a site for it. President Rutherford B. Hayes, who took office the following day, selected the Bedloe's Island site that Bartholdi had proposed. The construction of the statue head started in France by 1877 with Bartholdi. 250,000 francs were raised to help complete the head. The head and arm had been built with assistance from Viollet-le-Duc, who fell ill in 1879. He soon died, leaving no indication of how he intended to transition from the copper skin to his proposed masonry pier. The following year, Bartholdi was able to obtain the services of the innovative designer and builder Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel and his structural engineer, Maurice Koechlin, decided to abandon the pier and instead build an iron truss tower. Eiffel opted not to use a completely rigid structure, which would force stresses to accumulate in the skin and lead eventually to cracking. A secondary skeleton was attached to the center pylon, then, to enable the statue to move slightly in the winds of New York Harbor, and, since the metal would expand on hot summer days, he loosely connected the support structure to the skin using flat iron bars. Eiffel and Bartholdi worked together. By 1882, the statue was finished by its waist. In 1882, Americans aided money for the statue. 

As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled antisemitic pogroms in eastern Europe. These refugees were forced to live in conditions that the wealthy Lazarus had never experienced. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. The resulting sonnet, "The New Colossus", including the lines "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty in American culture and is inscribed on a plaque in its museum. By June 17, 1885, the French ship called Isere carried crates in New York City. 200,000 people lined the docks and hundreds of boats welcomed the ship. Many architects and engineers built the structure in New York City. The pedestal was created. There was a light. After the skin was completed, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Manhattan's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park, supervised a cleanup of Bedloe's Island in anticipation of the dedication. 

 

There are tons of symbolism in the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi and Laboulaye wanted to use imagery to represent American liberty. They wanted the statue to represent the concept of Liberty from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves. A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom (1863) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building. The statue's design evokes iconography evident in ancient history including the Egyptian goddess Isis, the ancient Greek deity of the same name, the Roman Columbia and the Christian iconography of the Virgin Mary. Artists of the 18th and 19th centuries striving to evoke republican ideals commonly used representations of Libertas as an allegorical symbol. A figure of Liberty was also depicted on the Great Seal of France. 

Bartholdi made alterations in the design as the project evolved. Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War. The erected statue does stride over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand; he settled on a tabula ansata, used to evoke the concept of law. Though Bartholdi greatly admired the United States Constitution, he chose to inscribe JULY IV MDCCLXXVI on the tablet, thus associating the date of the country's Declaration of Independence with the concept of liberty. Bartholdi interested his friend and mentor, architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, in the project. As chief engineer, Viollet-le-Duc designed a brick pier within the statue, to which the skin would be anchored. After consultations with the metalwork foundry Gaget, Gauthier & Co., Viollet-le-Duc chose the metal which would be used for the skin, copper sheets, and the method used to shape it, repoussé, in which the sheets were heated and then struck with wooden hammers. An advantage of this choice was that the entire statue would be light for its volume, as the copper need be only 0.094 inches (2.4 mm) thick. Bartholdi had decided on a height of just over 151 feet (46 m) for the statue, double that of Italy's Sancarlone and the German statue of Arminius, both made with the same method.

 

 

Many of my paternal cousins migrated from North Carolina to Connecticut. My paternal late 3rd cousin Ollie May Broadnax (1910-1990) lived from May 22, 1910, at Spray, North Carolina to January 3, 1990, at Bridgeport, Connecticut. She married Berkley Moyer (1913-1973). Their children are Troy L. Moyer (1928-2010), Doris M. Moyer (b. 1931), Ophelia Moyer (1935-1993), Cynthia A. Moyer (b. 1937), Luther R. Moyer (b. 1939), and Lois J. Moyer (b. 1943). My 4h cousin Ophelia Moyer married George Melvin Dillard (1930-2000) on September 3, 1949, at Rockingham, North Carolina. Their son is Aubrey Dillard (1952-2018), and Aubrey Dillard married Linda Diana Moyer on December 10, 1977, at Henry, Virginia. Their children are Audrey Dillard, Anthony J. Dillard, and Adrian Dillard. Ollie May Broadnax's parents were Cynthia Broadnax (1885-1931) and Dennis Broadnax (1881-1975). Cynthia Broadnax's parents were Dennis Harris (1860-1928) and Gundora Perkins (1868-1927). Gundora Perkins's parents were George Perkins II (1847-1932) and Fannie Lou Blackstock (1848-1949). Geroge Perkins II's parents were my 4th great grandparents George Perkins I (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816).

I never wrote about the history of Christianity chronological in almost ten years, but now it is the perfect time to do it again as we approach the 2,000 year anniversary of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and Pentecost. I want to do this for a long time, so I will mention a new work on the history of Christianity divided up into seven parts (representing the seven churches of the book of Revelations. Many scholars believe that the seven churches represent the seven church ages until the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ). Out of all religions, Christianity is the most beloved and hated religion in human history. To this day, many sincere Christians have lived blessed lives in love, human dignity, and almsgiving. Also, we have a serious problem of Christian persecution in Nigeria, in India, in Sudan, in China, in Saudi Arabia, in Mauritania, in Indonesia, and in other places of the world. Therefore, we have to clear to know about these issues, so real religious liberty is protected globally. The founder of Christianity is the Lord Jesus Christ, and the term Christian is mentioned in the New Testaments. Christians believe that prophecies from the Old Testament confirm the Messiah's identity as Yeshua. Not to mention that many creeds have rose up that contradiction the teachings of traditional Christianity like Mormonism, The Jehovah Witness, Gnosticism, etc. In the near future, this series will mention information about the Reformation, missionaries, the spread of Christianity globally, social issues, and different types of concepts. We believe in allowing people to believe in what they want, but people have the right to believe in Christianity if he or she wants to. Many of the early Christians were abused, beaten, and murdered by the Roman Empire. These actions are evil and wrong. We have to understand a lot about the Roman Empire to understand early Christians, because early Christians lived in Israel which was occupied by the Roman Empire as well. Also, evil people did anti-Semitism, slavery, racism, sexism, xenophobia, advocacy of Trumpism in the name of Christianity. That is wrong, because Christianity is not based on injustice or bigotry but having a relationship with the Messiah who saved the sins of the world with his sacrifice on the cross. This is a new series and a new journey that I'm excited to go into. It feels old times to mention the long story of Christianity. 

By Timothy