Friday, April 23, 2010

The Holocaust Memorial Day in honor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising was just observed. As I saw the survivors going up to the stage in Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial, I saw a generation that will soon be no longer. And so it will be our task to remember.

More than remembering is required. We live in times that require action. We see double talk and ignoring threats of genocide. We see the Iranian President as a guest of the UN whilst threatening another member state with genocide. This is against the organization's own rules and yet...

The Holocaust was different from other genocides. It was a systematic mass murder in an industrial manner. There was no regional conflict or two armies. It was evil and hatred.

Evil is always among us but we must choose to fight it. Let us remember what the Lord commanded: " So choose life that you and your children may live..." Our choices are important and we must choose again and again and today again. What we do to remember and speak the truth is the choice that leads to life!

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