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It’s Hysterically Funny That The Democratic Nominee For President Joe Biden Has A Long And Enthusiastic History Of Racism And Segregation
On May 22nd, Joe Biden said to radio host Charlamagne, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
On May 22, Biden sat down for an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” a popular radio show. Near the end of the interview, as he was questioned on policy by host Charlamagne, Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Oh how painful it must be to be a Democrat in the woke age in which we live in 2020, how utterly stupefying it must be to support riots in the streets to ‘end racism’ while simultaneously attempting to support a candidate for president you is a racist. This is a juggling act you are forced to do to maintain your membership in the Democratic Party in 2020.
Aside from being a serial molester of women and children, Joe Biden for nearly half a century in public office has made continual racist statements, and worked to pass laws that promoted segregation and unequal treatment to people of color. The internet is forever, and video proof of his deeds and actions are very easy to come by. We have posted some at the bottom of this article for you to view and consider.
The Democrats have made a deal with the Devil in picking Joe Biden as their nominee, only choosing him because they think his reduced mental condition will make him easy to control should he win the presidency. But they have to support an avowed, lifelong racist to do that, and guess what? It is highly likely that Biden will lose to Donald Trump, and they will have supported a racist who only wound up losing.
That’s a heck of a party platform, don’t you think? #BlackLivesMatter #PowerMatters
Joe Biden is a Racist Who Loves Police Brutality
FROM LEFT VOICE: Joe Biden’s history of enthusiastic racism stretches back decades. From the moment he entered the U.S. Senate in the early 1970s, he vocally opposed busing to achieve school desegregation. Today he disputes this fact, claiming he only opposed federally mandated busing. Nevertheless, “opposing busing” has long been racist code for opposing Black and brown children going to school with white children. At a time when “separate but equal” was beginning to become politically unpalatable, Biden’s leadership against busing, in the most generous possible interpretation, provided cover for segregationists to continue their work.
In the past day, Joe Biden asked a black reporter if he was a junkie and said the African American community has no diversity of thought. He’s either having serious mental issues or is a racist, yet the national media continues to carry his water while he sits in his basement. https://t.co/nSJWeauLSU
— Doug Collins (@CollinsforGA) August 6, 2020
Joe Biden represented Delaware in the Senate, a state that essentially refused to desegregate schools through a combination of hair-splitting laws and white parents shifting their children to private schools en masse. Private school enrollment in Delaware is now among the highest in the nation, at 17.6 percent in Biden’s hometown of Wilmington — the vast majority of them white. Meanwhile, disproprotionately Black public schools are systematically starved of funds. This kind of de facto segregation is exactly what Joe Biden promoted in his anti-busing campaign.
Ahead of the 2020 South Carolina presidential primary, a focus group was asked about this very portion of Biden’s record. One woman in the group asked “are we honestly being asked to to believe he is a segregationist?” Evidence points to yes.
Twenty years later, having risen to the prominent position of chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden presided over confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas to become the second Black Supreme Court justice. The hearings became a crucible for the particular combination of racism and misogyny at the heart of the United States when law professor Anita Hill, also Black and who had previously worked for Thomas, came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him. The all-male, all-white committee Biden chaired questioned her in brutal detail. He refused to take her allegations seriously, launched no investigation, and failed to accept testimony from multiple other witnesses and survivors of Thomas’s harassment. With Biden’s collusion, Thomas was confirmed and today is one of the Court’s consistent right-wing votes. Reportedly, he’s also Trump’s favorite justice.
Biden’s dismal record here is especially important to note, since one of the main arguments deployed in his favor is that he will appoint better judges than Trump has to various federal courts.
Perhaps the most egregious example of Biden’s racist use of power is 1994’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the crime bill he wrote and continues to support vocally to this day. The bill is a laundry list of the worst aspects of the mass incarceration state. It led to a boom in the number of police officers and prisons, lengthened prison sentences, and created financial incentives to keep people in jail. It created 60 new death penalty offenses as well as the infamous “three strikes and you’re out” rule, which inflicted a life sentence for almost any crime, even ones considered very minor, if there were two prior convictions for “serious” or “violent” crimes. Since then, people have died in prison for things like stealing a dollar in loose change from a parked car, possessing less than 1 gram of a drug, and attempting to break into a soup kitchen. Biden had also co-written the Anti-Drug Abuse Act a few years earlier, during the so-called crack epidemic. It amplified sentencing disparities between crack cocaine users, who were mostly Black, and powder cocaine users, who were mostly white.
All these new laws affected people of color, especially Black and Indigenous people, the most, leading to a massive increase in incarceration, policing, and the destruction of Black communities. While the crime bill was very popular at the time, it came under heavy criticism from those who knew it would worsen carceral capitalism. Now considered widely to be a racist failure, some previous supporters have disowned it. Only someone truly committed to racism would maintain his support of the bill, as Biden still does. “On balance,” he says, “the whole bill … did in fact bring down violent crime.” And, he contends, “The crime bill didn’t increase mass incarceration.”
So this happened… “If you got a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or for Trump then you ain’t Black.”
–@JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k— Maliek Blade (@MaliekBlade) May 22, 2020
Biden’s racism can also be viewed through the lens of the infamous “civility” of the U.S. Senate — a body that serves as a playground in which rich and powerful Democrats and Republicans can disagree lightly during working hours while maintaining deep social, political, and financial connections. Biden was an enthusiastic participant in this tradition through his friendship and fruitful working relationship with noted segregationist and vile racist Strom Thurmond, the senator from South Carolina.
“I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of civil rights, and on many other issues, but I watched him change,” Biden said as he eulogized his racist friend in 2003. However, it’s not clear that they disagreed all that much. They worked together early in Biden’s Senate career on the 1983 Comprehensive Forfeiture Act, which increased the use of civil asset forfeiture by police departments across the country. Civil forfeiture is legalized theft, allowing cops to seize and sell any property they say is involved in a crime, even if the owner is never even arrested or convicted. It is used mostly against working class and poor people, especially if they are Black. Since 1999, the federal government alone took in $36.5 billion in assets through civil forfeiture, a percentage of which was used to buy military grade weaponry that was then allotted to local and state police agencies and has been deployed against protesters. Biden played a pivotal role in ensuring the law was passed, whipping the Democrats into voting for it and ensuring that Thurmond got the credit for the law.
“We don’t treat the opposition as the enemy,” Biden said while campaigning for president recently. “We might even say a nice word every once in a while about a Republican when they do something good.” Apparently, Biden thinks the police stealing from Black communities in order to repress them more thoroughly is good.
Another line of argument Biden’s supporters use to divert attention from his racism is that he was vice president under Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States. It doesn’t just smack of “I have a Black friend” side-stepping, it’s even more flimsy.
Obama’s own record on race while president isn’t a glowing one. He often relied on symbolism, rather than material action — such as with the infamous “beer summit” between a white police officer and the Black Harvard University professor the cop arrested for entering his own home. When he wasn’t ignoring race, he insisted it was a “both-sides” issue. For instance, in his famous 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech, Obama spoke about solving racism in America if only everyone forgave each other. It’s the same “both-sides-ism” whenever a white liberal shares a photo on social media of a cop and a protester hugging (often minutes before the cops turn violent).
During the anti-racist, anti-police uprisings in Ferguson following the murder of Michael Brown in 2014, Obama criticized the protesters. “There are productive ways of responding and expressing those frustrations, and there are destructive ways of responding. Burning buildings, torching cars, destroying property, putting people at risk — that’s destructive and there’s no excuse for it. Those are criminal acts. And people should be prosecuted if they engage in criminal acts.”
Those words are echoed in how liberals are talking about protesters today. Obama, though, had more power than most liberals and used it to expand a racist system. It cannot be a defense of Biden that he served as vice president — a stepping stone to power in itself — under a Black president who pursued mass incarceration, surveillance, the war against drugs, imperialism, land theft from Indigenous people, and other policies of neoliberalism that disproportionately target people of color.
On May 22, Biden sat down for an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” a popular radio show. Near the end of the interview, as he was questioned on policy by host Charlamagne the God, Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Black people on social media were quick to point out the absurdity of a white man feeling entitled to determine who is or is not Black. In response to the swift backlash, Biden gave the requisite milquetoast apology. However, Charlamagne zeroed in on the problem. “I don’t ever care about the words and the lip service and the apology is cool, but the best apology is actually a black agenda … They’ve got to make some real policy commitments to black people. We’ve got to stop acting like the fact that blacks are overrepresented in America when it comes to welfare, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, drug addiction, crime, coronavirus—that’s no accident. The whole function of systemic racism is to marginalize black people.”
While Biden may have learned the right words to say in 2020 to avoid accusations of racism, as in his “plan for Black America,” he lacks the policies, actions, or record to back them up. Racism isn’t what you say; it’s what you do. And Biden continues to advocate for racist action worldwide, from criminal penalties for immigration to increased military spending, even after his recent and calculated about-face on prisons and sentencing.
Biden doesn’t really stand with Black Americans. Faced with the clear choice to stand with protesters fighting racist state violence or with the police brutalizing them, it is no surprise that he sought a pseudo-middle ground, saying, “The idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there’s an unarmed person, coming at him with a knife or something, to shoot him in the leg instead of in the heart. There’s a lot of different things [policies] that can change.”
Apparently, Biden thinks the things that can change are limited to what part of an unarmed protester’s body the police should aim to shoot. The only way to read this is that Biden, an enthusiastic proponent of state violence, just wishes the cops would carry it out a bit more politely and with more plausible deniability. Either way, given his long support for racist policies and his blithe dismissal of any questioning of that record, there is no reason to believe Biden in any way stands with the protesters against racist state violence, or that the way the police terrorize Black communities would be different under a Biden administration than under Trump.
Joe Biden has said, “I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done.” We should take him at his word, and look at his record. Even if a bourgeois politician could or ever would “solve” racism in America, Joe Biden is not that person. He has spent his life fighting for policies that make life worse for Black, Indigenous, and white working-class Americans. Why should anyone believe he will do anything different as president? READ MORE
50 Years of Joe Biden Racist Comments
This is a compilation of all of Joe Biden’s public racist remarks for the past fifty years (who knows what he’s said in private if this is his public record), and some commentary by some of his closest Black friends.
In 2012 Joe Biden’s Remarks Were ‘Racial Viciousness’
Democrats Terrified At Joe Biden Debating Trump
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How Constantine’s 4th-Century Religious Revolution Turned Persecuted Christianity Into The State-Backed Roman System That Became The Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church Rose From The Ruins Of Pagan Rome As Constantine’s Empire Turned Christianity Into A State-Favored Religious Institution
The origins of the Roman Catholic Church are not found in Peter preaching at Pentecost, Paul writing to the churches, or the apostles planting local assemblies under the authority of Jesus Christ. The New Testament church began in the first century as a spiritual body of born-again believers saved by grace through faith. The Roman Catholic system, as a centralized, hierarchical, sacramental, state-favored religious institution, began taking recognizable shape in the 4th century, when professing Christianity was forcibly joined to the power structure of the Roman Empire in what can only be described as a hostile corporate takeover. Cue the woman riding on the Beast.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:6 (KJB)
The Bible knows nothing of a pope ruling from Rome, a priesthood offering a repeated sacrifice of the mass, Mary as mediatrix, purgatory, relic veneration, indulgences, cardinals, monasteries, confessionals, or a Vatican state. Those are not apostolic doctrines. They are later historical developments, many of them growing out of the centuries after Constantine. The church that Christ purchased with His blood was not a Roman corporation. It was, and remains, a spiritual body.
“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” Acts 20:28 (KJB)
Constantine Did Not Start Christianity, He Politicized It
The decisive historical shift came under Constantine. In A.D. 313, Constantine and Licinius issued what is commonly called the Edict of Milan, granting legal toleration to Christianity and restoring confiscated Christian property. Britannica describes it as the proclamation that “permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire.” That was the beginning of the Constantinian shift: Christianity moved from persecuted faith to protected religion. But what looked like relief from persecution also opened the door to corruption by imperial power. Before Constantine, Christians were often hunted by Rome. After Constantine, bishops began receiving imperial favor, church disputes became matters of state interest, and the machinery of Caesar began wrapping itself around professing Christianity. That is not the pattern of the New Testament.
“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight,” John 18:36 (KJB)
The Lord Jesus Christ did not commission His apostles to build a religious empire. He sent them to preach the gospel for the salvation of individual souls for the body of Christ.
Nicaea Shows The New Imperial Church Order
In 325 AD, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea to address the Arian controversy over the deity of Christ. The deity of Christ is absolutely Bible truth, and Arius was wrong. But the historical issue is not merely what doctrine was debated; it is who summoned the council and what that revealed. Even the Catholic Encyclopedia, preserved at New Advent, says the emperor “begged the bishops of every country to come promptly to Nicaea,” provided imperial transport, and supplied their maintenance during the council. It also admits that it is “not historically known” whether Constantine convoked the council solely in his own name or in agreement with Pope Sylvester.
That is a staggering admission. Why? Because that means that the first great council of the emerging imperial church order was not called by an apostle, not called by Scripture, not called by a New Testament pattern of local church authority, and certainly not by Jesus hand-picked leader Paul, but by a Roman emperor. The problem is not that Nicaea affirmed the deity of Christ. The problem is that this moment reveals a new arrangement: the emperor and the bishops now standing together in a system of church-state power. The apostolic churches had pastors, elders, and bishops. They did not have Caesar organizing their doctrine and funding their councils.
“The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder,” 1 Peter 5:1 (KJB)
Peter did not call himself pope. He called himself “an elder.”
Theodosius Completed What Constantine Began
Constantine legalized and favored Christianity to enhance and increase his political power and control. Later, Theodosius I pushed Nicene Christianity into the position of imperial orthodoxy. Britannica notes that Theodosius “established the creed of the Council of Nicaea (325) as the universal norm for Christian orthodoxy” and convened the Council of Constantinople in 381. This is where the matter becomes even more plain. By the late 4th century, the Roman Empire was no longer merely tolerating Christianity. It was enforcing a particular form of Christianity as the approved religion of the empire.
That is the soil from which Roman Catholicism grew. not the upper room, but the imperial court; not apostolic simplicity, but Roman organization; not spiritual separation, but church-state union.
The Bible warned against exactly this type of mixture:
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 (KJB)
The Church At Rome Was Not The Roman Catholic Church
Paul wrote to believers at Rome in the first century, but Romans is not a Catholic epistle. There is no pope in Romans. No mass. No Marian dogma. No priestly confessional. No Vatican treasury. No sacramental system. Paul addressed saved people in a local assembly.
“To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:” Romans 1:7 (KJB)
Notice what he does not say: “To the pope at Rome.” He does not address Peter as bishop of Rome. He gives no instruction to submit to Roman supremacy. He teaches the same gospel he preached everywhere else: justification by faith, grace, the blood of Christ, and the righteousness of God apart from the works of the law.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:” Romans 5:1 (KJB)
The later Roman Catholic claim that the church of Rome is the mother and mistress of all churches cannot be read out of the New Testament. It must be read back into it from later ecclesiastical tradition, which is exactly what they did.
The Bishop Of Rome Rose By Prestige, Politics, And Power
The bishop of Rome did not appear in the first century as a universal pope. His authority grew gradually because Rome was the imperial capital, wealthy, influential, and associated by tradition with Peter and Paul. Over time, the Roman bishop increasingly claimed special authority over other churches. But that development was historical and political, not biblical and apostolic. In the New Testament, church government is local. Bishops and elders oversee flocks. No single bishop rules the entire body of Christ from one city.
Paul told Titus:
“For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city,” Titus 1:5 (KJB)
That is the Bible pattern: elders in every city, not a pope over every church.
Pagan Rome Did Not Die, It Put On A Religious Robe
The Roman Catholic system absorbed much of the machinery, imagery, and religious instinct of pagan Rome. As the empire became “Christianized,” the old Roman appetite for temples, ceremonies, sacred offices, relics, holy days, and priestly mediation was repackaged under Christian vocabulary.
This is one of the most important points: Roman Catholicism did not simply absorb New Testament Christianity. It institutionalized, ritualized, and Romanized it. The result was a religious system with Christian terms but Roman architecture; biblical names but pagan habits; apostolic language but imperial structure. The New Testament believer is not saved through a church hierarchy. He is saved by the finished work of Jesus Christ.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8,9 (KJB)
That one verse destroys Rome’s sacramental system. A number of years ago, Pope Francis dispatched Anglican bishop Tony Palmer to start spreading the message that Rome now believed in salvation by grace through faith, but it was a ‘failed from the start’ effort that rang hollow everytime it was sounded.
The Real Issue Is Authority
At the heart of the Roman Catholic question is not merely history. It is authority. Rome says authority is Scripture plus tradition, interpreted by the magisterium under papal authority. The Bible believer says final authority is the word of God. Anything else that is more or less is not of God.
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” 2 Timothy 3:16 (KJB)
The Roman Catholic system must lean on tradition because its defining doctrines cannot possibly be established from the New Testament. The papacy, the mass as a sacrifice, Marian dogmas, purgatory, indulgences, priestly absolution, and the treasury of merit are not apostolic Christianity. They are later man-made additions.
The Bible warns against religious tradition replacing the commandment of God:
“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition,” Mark 7:13 (KJB)
The Bottom Line
The Roman Catholic Church did not begin as the church Christ founded. It arose as a historical development after the apostles, especially in the 4th century, when Christianity was legalized, favored, organized, and eventually enforced by Roman imperial power. Constantine opened the door in 313 AD. Nicaea in 325 AD displayed the new imperial-bishop alliance. Theodosius advanced Nicene Christianity as the empire’s religious norm by the end of the 4th century. From that soil grew the Roman Catholic institution: hierarchical, sacramental, political, and centered increasingly on the authority of Rome.
The first-century church was a body of believers gathered around the apostle Paul and his gospel. The Roman Catholic Church became a religious empire gathered around Rome and its hierarchy. That’s the dividing line.
- One is spiritual. The other is institutional.
- One is built on the finished work of Christ. The other developed a priestly system of mediation.
- One preaches salvation by grace through faith. The other binds men to sacraments, tradition, and ecclesiastical authority.
The Bible believing conclusion is plain: the Roman Catholic Church is not the mother of biblical Christianity. It is the Roman corruption and counterfeit of it. At the Council of Trent in 1545, the Roman Catholic Church offficially declared their opposition to Paul’s gospel, and that’s where things have remained ever since.
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The Spanish Inquisition Was Built To Enforce Vatican Superiority, But It Revealed The Roman Catholic System’s Fear Of The Bible And Bible Believers
The Spanish Inquisition Was The Fruit Of A Religious System That Feared The Bible, Hated Gospel Liberty, And Persecuted The Bible Believers Who Rejected Rome’s False Doctrines
The Spanish Inquisition stands as one of the darkest symbols of Rome’s long war against the Bible, the gospel, and the conscience of men who refused to bow before a priest, a pope, a wafer, a statue, or a religious machine that claimed authority over the souls of men. Rome did not persecute Bible believers because they were criminals. Rome persecuted them because they believed the Bible, preached the Bible, translated the Bible, distributed the Bible, and dared to say that the words of God were higher than the decrees of a pope. That is the part of Catholic church history Rome would rather leave buried under cathedral stones, incense smoke, stained glass windows, and centuries of carefully polished religious language. The picture at the top of this article is highly historically accurate, so you do the math.
“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.” John 16:1-3 (KJB)
John Foxe records the hatred that the religious authorities had for the Bible in the common tongue. Concerning Tyndale’s New Testament, Foxe says that the clergy were “not willing to have that book to prosper,” and that some cried that it must be “utterly to be suppressed.” That is Rome’s spirit in one sentence: suppress the Book, silence the preacher, and keep the people in darkness. The issue was never merely politics, though politics was often involved.
The issue was authority. Would the final authority be the words of God, or would it be the decrees of Rome? Would salvation be by grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, or would it be dispensed through sacraments, priests, masses, indulgences, confessions, penances, and a church-state system that claimed power over both body and soul?
Across the centuries, Bible believers, Reformers, Lollards, Waldenses, Anabaptists, Huguenots, and countless others found themselves hunted, tortured, exiled, imprisoned, and burned because they would not bow the knee to Rome’s counterfeit authority. Many rejected transubstantiation. Many rejected the pope as the head of the church. Many rejected Mary worship, image veneration, priestly mediation, and the blasphemous claim that salvation could be controlled by a religious hierarchy. And in some cases, their great crime was simply this: they wanted the common man to have the Holy Bible in his own tongue. Foxe understood that Rome’s persecution was not only physical tyranny, but spiritual tyranny. In his account of the Waldenses, he called it “ecclesiastical tyranny,” and said it was “the worst kind of tyranny.” Why? Because it did not merely seize lands or imprison bodies; it presumed to command the conscience, bind the soul, and dictate what men were allowed to believe about God.
The Spanish Inquisition was not an isolated historical oddity. It was a manifestation of the same spirit that has always hated an open Bible in the hands of the common man. It sought religious conformity through fear, confession, punishment, imprisonment, public humiliation, torture, and death. It showed what happens when church and state join hands and decide that disagreement with Rome is not merely error, but treason against God and king. Foxe’s account of the martyrs in Spain says they suffered “for the verity and pure word of God,” and were “led to death as sheep to the shambles.” That is the witness Rome cannot erase. They were not dying for politics, philosophy, or rebellion. They were dying because the pure word of God had taken root in their hearts, and they could not recant the truth they had received.
William Tyndale stands as one of the brightest examples of that bloody conflict. His burden was not rebellion for rebellion’s sake; it was Bible truth. He wanted the plowboy in the field to know more Scripture than the religious elites who kept the people in darkness. Foxe records Tyndale’s holy defiance in these words: “I defy the pope, and all his laws.” For that, Rome hated him. For that, he was condemned as a heretic. For that, he was executed. His real offense was not that he had harmed society, but that he had exposed the religious system that feared an open Bible in the hands of ordinary people.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJB)
That verse is the death blow to religious tyranny. Truth makes men free, and Rome’s system has always prospered by keeping men bound—bound to the confessional, bound to the priest, bound to the sacrament, bound to the mass, bound to the traditions of men. The Bible cuts through all of it like the twoedged sword that it is.
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” 1 Timothy 2:5 (KJB)
There it is, plain and sharp. One mediator. Not Mary. Not a priest. Not the pope. Not a sacramental system. The man Christ Jesus and Him alone. That single verse topples the entire structure of Roman priestcraft. No wonder Bible translation was treated like treason. No wonder Scripture in the common tongue was viewed as dangerous. A man with an open Bible soon learns that he does not need Rome to get to God. It is not merely a dark chapter of European history. It is a testimony to the hatred that religious systems have for the pure words of God. The Spanish INquisition, and the wider machinery of Rome’s persecution, did not merely oppose “private interpretation.” It opposed the Bible functioning as the final authority over the church, the state, the priest, and the pope.
Foxe’s writings burn with the memory of dungeons, racks, stakes, and martyrs who would not trade the truth for their lives. One edition speaks of the system that “filled the dungeons of the inquisition,” and “fed the fires of the auto de fe.” That is not the language of academic distance. That is the language of a Protestant memory soaked in blood, warning future generations not to forget what religious tyranny does when it gets power.
The blood of the martyrs cries out against the sanitized version of history. Men and women were not tortured and burned because they were confused troublemakers. Many were punished because they believed what the Bible said over what Rome commanded. They believed Jesus Christ’s sacrifice was finished. They believed the Scripture was sufficient. They believed salvation was not purchased by works, masses, indulgences, or sacraments, but received by faith.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” Ephesians 2:8 (KJB)
That is the gospel Rome could not control. That is the truth no priestly system can improve. That is the message that set captives free and brought the wrath of religious authorities down upon the heads of Bible believers. The Waldenses were accused because they did not believe the doctrines of Rome, did not go to Mass, did not confess to priests, did not believe in purgatory, and would not pay money to release souls from a place the Bible never teaches. That is why Rome marked them. Not because they were immoral, but because they refused the system. Foxe records that even their enemies were forced to admit they were “harmless, inoffensive, loyal,” and pious. Yet Rome still hated them because they would not submit.
CATHOLICS, BEHOLD YOUR GOD!! Watch as the Holy Father, a Name of God stolen from John 17:11, Pope Leo XIV, lead 500,000 Roman Catholics in the solemn worship of a piece of bread encased in a golden monstrance (monster). Idolatry at its finest. Go read Revelation 9:20 KJB pic.twitter.com/44lu5sssDe
— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) June 7, 2026
Roman Catholic power, working through church and state, shed the blood of uncountable multitudes who refused to surrender the Bible, the gospel, and the finished work of Jesus Christ to the traditions of men. The issue was then, and remains now, the same issue it has always been: Bible authority versus church authority. Christ versus the system. The gospel of the grace of God versus sacramental bondage. The written words of God versus the traditions of men.
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” John 17:17 (KJB)
That is why Rome feared the Bible. That is why the martyrs died with Scripture on their lips. And that is why every Bible believer today should thank God for the men and women who paid in blood so that we could hold an open Bible in our hands and preach Jesus Christ without asking permission from a priest, a pope, or a religious machine in Rome. The Spanish Inquisition reminds us that when a religious system fears the Bible, it will always seek to control, corrupt, ban, burn, or bury it. But the word of God is not bound, it cannot be chained, the gospel cannot be extinguished, and the Lord Jesus Christ needs no earthly “vicar” to stand between Himself and the sinners He came to save.
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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Today Is Day 100 Of World War Trump In Iran With The Regime In Tehran Continuing To Dictate The Ongoing Narrative
Day 100 Of World War Trump Arrives With Iran Still Burning, Israel Still Bracing And America Still Pretending That Endless War Is The Pathway To Peace
Day 100 of World War Trump in Iran has now arrived, and with it comes the bitter reminder that when powerful men tell you a war is “over” on the first day, what they usually mean is that the truth has only just begun to bleed. Donald Trump said it was over. Pete Hegseth said it was controlled. The press briefings were polished, the victory language was prepackaged, and the machinery of empire assured the American people that this would be another clean, decisive, made-for-television strike. One day. One blow. One triumph. Then back to business. But here we are on Day 100. Trump says that “he’s calling the shots”, but he clearly is not driving the wartime narrative. Iran is.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Psalm 146:3 (KJB)
On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, what began as another “limited action” has become another senseless US Middle East war with no clean exit, no honest accounting, and no shortage of official excuses from the Trump administration. The same people who promised us control now speak in carefully managed phrases, parsed and nuanced for mass MAGA consumption. The same administration that claimed victory at the start is still struggling to manage escalation three and a half months later. The same war party that always finds money for missiles, drones, carriers, contractors, and foreign entanglements is once again feeding from the trough while American families are told to tighten their belts in this terrible economy. Trump ran as the man who would end the wars, calling himself the “president of peace”. Yet here he is, stamped firmly onto one of his own. His MAGA defenders can spin it, rename it, minimize it, and blame everyone else, but the calendar is merciless. The first day has now become the one-hundredth. The “finished” war is still producing devastating consequences. The ‘victory lap’ has soured and turned into the long march through the endless fog of war. And Hegseth? He is learning what every polished wartime spokesman eventually learns: wars don’t obey press releases, and missiles do not care about slogans. Iran does not vanish because someone on television says that America is in control. The Strait of Hormuz does not calm down and reopen because a cabinet official issues forth with boastful braggadocio from behind a microphone. God has a way of humiliating the pride of the rulers of this world. Welcome to Day 100 of World War Trump!
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