Hello, relatable listeners. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Happy Wednesday.

Today we are going to get into the Sri Lankan bombing to the tragic incident that happened there

over Easter weekend. I won't spend too much time talking about the details. I do want to give you

a little bit of a background just for those of you who weren't able to catch what happened on the

news. But I really want to spend more time in the analysis of this, what the reactions to the

attacks actually mean for where we are as a society and as and where we are as far as our

political environment goes. And then I want to dive into what this means as Christian specifically

and what the Bible has to say about Christian persecution. So in case you don't know this past Easter

weekend, suicide bombers detonated bombs at several churches in Sri Lanka killing 321 people

and wounded another 500 people. This happened at several Roman Catholic churches and three hotels.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Saint Sebastian Church appeared to have suffered the worst

of this attack. More than a hundred of its congregants were killed. The tourism minister said that at

least 39 foreigners were among the dead that includes United States citizens. There was a pretty

little known radical Islamist group called the National Thou Heath Jamat that was blamed for this

official. The group had not actually carried out any serious attacks in the past. So this was a

little bit of a surprise though they did seem to have received help from an international terrorist

organization. I'm not sure if that organization has been specified. Now here's an interesting

part according to the New York Times as Sri Lanka's security forces were warned about this at

least 10 days before the bombings, but they didn't actually do anything. They took no action.

There is a reason for that. Well, one of the reasons for that. There's probably a couple

and probably a few more that I'm not actually privy to, but one of the reasons for that is because

there are no religious protections for religious minorities in Sri Lanka. There are protections

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