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rickylittleton:
A few years ago before Ray died, we were discussing some internment parts of what the black culture in this part of our country endured with. I told him the story of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in which medical doctors came to Tuskegee and injected black men with syphilis so as to see the effects it had on block's than whites. The medical doctors told that they were being treated with the best of medicine when in fact they were given only solution that did nothing. This went on for 40 years until in the 70s a News Reporter got the story and reported it open to the public. Many men died, babies were born deformed, and there are kin folks that I have that have died a few years ago that were involve with this experiment. I know this has nothing to do with the subjects of the forums, but I feel that we need to know our Alabama history, and how the basis of men would go so low as to treat other men, who were made in the image of God would do.Now the days are getting evil as ever before, and there is no telling what's is going on behind our backs. It is only in our prayers to God, and our faith in the scriptural witting that gives us hope that all this evil of man will be over after while.   Your brother in Christ: Timothy

lareli:
I've read a little about the Tuskegee experiments.

I don't know if it's Alabama history, or the history of what evils man is capable in general that is important. We are all the same species of evil man and we are all guilty of and capable of all.

We're told in Hebrews that strong meat belongs to those who exercise their discernment of good and evil. For this reason it may be wise to know our history and be able to discern good and evil. However I will admit that sometimes I get caught up in discerning the evil in mankind only. Perhaps because so many 'evils' of our past had been covered up or hidden from us until now with the Internet and free flow of information available to us. Now even as I write this I'm realizing that I have not focused on the discerning of 'good' as much as I should perhaps. I dunno.

Kat:
Hi timothy, it's hard to believe what some humans are capable of doing to their fellow human being. But as largeli indicated this is the way of this world and nothing new for this evil age.  Not to diminish what you are talking about happened, but vile despicable acts are happening in this world continually. Here is a list that points out how human life has been eradicated in some of the greatest numbers in history.

Atrocities: The Top Deadliest Manmade Events in History

1. Second World War (Worldwide 1939-45) - Germany and Japan decide that the world would be a lot better place without all those damn foreigners.
Death Toll: 65 million (including the Holocaust in which approximately 11 million people were killed, and also included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in which approximately one million were killed)

2. Genghis Khan (Asia: 1206-27) - The Mongols decides that the world would be a lot better place without all those damn foreigners.
Death Toll: 40 million

3. Mao Zedong (China: 1949-75) - Communist policies badly messed up China.
Death Toll: 40 million

4. Famines in British India (1769, 1876, 1896, 1943) - Colonial policies badly messed up India.
Death Toll: 27 million

5. Fall of the Ming Dynasty (China: 1635-62) - The pinnacle of Chinese civilization succumbed to internal rebellion and external invaders.
Death Toll: 25 million

6. Taiping Rebellion (China: 1850-64) - A messianic uprising of Chinese Christians.
Death Toll: 20 million

7. Stalin (Soviet Union: 1928-53) - The second most evil mustache in history.
Death Toll: 20 million

8. Mideast Slave Trade (ca. 700-1900) - It wasn't really like this.
Death Toll: 19 million

9. Tamerlane (Central Asia: 1370-1405) - A Mongol warlord tried a bit too hard to be like Genghis Khan.
Death Toll: 17 million

10. Atlantic Slave Trade (1452-1807) - Someone's got to do the dirty work.
Death Toll: 16 million

11. First World War (Europe: 1914-18) - Everyone in Europe fought a war to keep everyone else in Europe from getting too powerful.
Death Toll: 15 million

12. Conquest of the Americas (after 1492) - A wonderful New World, free for the taking... well, almost free for the taking...
Death Toll: 15 million

13. An Lushan Revolt (China: 755-763) - The frontier army of China turned against the central government.
Death Toll: 13 million

14. Xin Dynasty (China: 9-24) - China falls apart under a usurper.
Death Toll: 10 million

15. Congo Free State (1886-1908) - The heart of darkness.
Death Toll: 10 million

16. Russian Civil War (1918-22) - Like matter and antimatter, Communists and anti-Communists annihilated one another.
Death Toll: 9 million

17. Thirty Years War (Germany: 1618-1648) - Catholics and Protestants fought over control of Germany.
Death Toll: 7.5 million

18. Fall of the Yuan Dynasty (China: 1358) - Native Chinese threw out their Mongol overlords
Death Toll: 7.5 million

19. Fall of Rome (Europe: 395-455) - The end of civilization as we knew it.
Death Toll: 7 million

20. Chinese Civil Wars (1927-37, 1946-49) - After the monarchy fell, Communists, Nationalists and multiple warlords tried to sort out who was in charge.
Death Toll: 7 million

21. The Mahdi (Sudan: 1881-98) - A Muslim messiah appeared in the deserts along the upriver Nile.
Death Toll: 5.5 million

22. Time of Troubles (Russia: 1598-1613) - For awhile it seemed like everyone in Russia was claiming to be the missing Prince Dmitri.
Death Toll: 5 million

23. Aurangzeb (Northern India: 1681-1707) - The Mughal–Maratha Wars
Death Toll: 4.6 million

24. Vietnam War (1960-1975) - If we let one country go Communist, they all will.
Death Toll: 4.2 million

25. Three Kingdoms (China: 189-280) - Things fall apart. The center does not hold.
Death Toll: 4.1 million

26. Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815) - One man versus the World.
Death Toll: 4.0 million

27. Second Congo War (1998-2002) - Rwanda and Uganda chase rebels into Congo.
Death Toll: 3.8 million

28. Hundred Years War (1337-1453) - English kings claim the French throne for themselves.
Death Toll: 3.5 million

29. Gladiatorial Games (Rome: 264 BCE-435 CE) - We who are about to die salute you.
Death Toll: 3.5 million
http://www.bookofhorriblethings.com/ax01.html

I know that this list is of the highest number in death toil, but the individual despicable acts of evil were absolutely there and throughout history it has been ever ongoing.

Mike Gagne:
Just rereading lake of fire series part 10 and it was this that came to mind for this post,

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these

Job 2:10  What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done

Hab 1:5  Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Hab 1:6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs

Evil isn't good when we do it, but it is the Love of God for God is LOVE. Thats what I think

What do you think, is that the Love of God?

Michael

Dennis Vogel:
What goes around comes around.

I believe God repeats history over and over. Tutankhamun looks black to me (but the topic controversial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy).

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