Persecution
We don’t truly know what the first sin was, but the first sin spoken of in the Bible was the decision made by Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. From this point on, the Bible is filled with countless stories of sin against God. As humans, our depravity grows stronger and more twisted than we could possibly imagine. Multiple times it becomes so bad that God destroys entire cities. Discrimination is not new. It has become popular in modern times because we can look to our recent past. Unfortunately, we don’t learn from our past. People complain about American enslavement of Africans in the late 1800s and atrocities that Africans living in the United States faced before and after the Civil Rights movement. I understand the injustice that was American history. Those people did not deserve to be put through what they were. No one deserves that. But when are we going to stop repeating history? Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual, or group, by