>Writer Michael Gerson of the Post paints a not-too rosy picture of Christians who may have participated, overtly or passively, in the Holocaust or mass murders of Jews.
Whether you agree with Gerson or not, it would behoove you to at least take a look at his op-ed article printed in part below. A large part of it is not objective, but how objective can one get when we’re talking about something that happened 60 to 70 years ago?
Let’s face it — the Jews have been persecuted for centuries. Pop open your Bible and read about the persecution of the Jews, even in Egypt, and when Noah was building his ship on which only something like eight people survived the flood.
Every time people decide to live God’s commandments to the letter, such as Nephi’s people in the new world as told in the Book of Mormon, there are always dissenters and others who persecute by enslaving God’s people. Nephi’s older brothers began systematically criticizing this righteous man, Nephi, by lying to the Lamanites that Nephi had robbed them of their heritage, status, priesthood, and their honored place before God. The Lamanites, throughout the Book of Mormon, were more numerous than the Nephites — and a whole lot more warlike, indolent, and lazy most of the time — and they were constantly attacking, causing wars to take over cities the Nephis had built through honest industry.
It’s the same today. America has been industrious and has prospered. Yet terrorists, for no objective reason I know of except they misread their own religion, want to create havoc here and around the world and, of course, in Israel. Because Americans have a love of all peoples — we are of the blood of all peoples and lands — especially those espousing Judeo/Christian concepts of brotherhood and love, we are the target of the same animus as the Jews. Terrorists don’t just want to kill our people and damage our cities, they want to wipe us off the face of the earth.
Today, persecution occurs because people lack faith, and it is the former members of the church who do the worst damage. God grant that we will never again be part of persecuting our brothers, the Jews (or the Mormons or other people), no matter if it’s overtly or passively as we did in the last primary election when Evangelicals decided they couldn’t stand seeing a Mormon elected president and voted almost in mass against Mitt Romney and embraced a liberal Republican, John McCain. What foolishness!
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Pope Benedict XVI gestures during the weekly general audience in Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a “very clear” rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican’s rehabilitation of a former bishop who questioned whether 6 million Jews were gassed by the Nazis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (Andrew Medichini – AP)
There are those who maliciously print articles which denigrade churches today, and especially Jews, but I doubt this is one of them. Gerson is a highly respected author and writer, though this was intended as an op-ed article, not reportage.
The Post leads with two articles about the Holocaust.
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