a pointed observation

I was listening to a radio drama about a German pastor who helped smuggle Jews out of Germany during the Holocaust. His name sounded like "bonhoffer", but I have no clue how it was spelled. Unfortunately, I was at work while I was listening to it, and had to stop listening at the part where the Gestapo came to the door. Hearing the pounding at the door, his mother urged him to flee, but both he and his father agreed that all would be well; after all, he had all the paperwork, etc. And so, instead of this man sneaking out the back way, before the Gestapo realized he had escaped; he decided to stay.

Of course, a stupid commercial came on and I had to get back to work, but another commercial advertising next week's drama (its a series), made it pretty obvious to the listeners that he was in a concentration camp. I wonder what ever happened to him? It was based on a true story. Not to make light of this man's story, but what if he had listened to his mother? What if his father had listened to his wife, and agreed that his son should go, instead of telling her it would be all right, and to stop worrying? Would it have mattered, or only delayed his arrest for a few weeks?

Anyway guys, next time a woman is concerned about something, listen to her. She might know what she's talking about, especially if she's your mum (or significant other).

I'm not even going to begin to post my rant on the insanity of how there got to be a Gestapo or how a society could become so evil that people had to rescue the Jews from it in the first place! Except to say this. Hate speech is very dangerous, and blaming one group of people for the world's problems only brings more problems; never does it bring solutions. It is ridiculous to blame the Jews for Christ's death; it was the hatred and anger in people's hearts that put him on the Cross. Dying that we might live; an innocent man took the punishment that a world full of hatred and anger and cruelty deserved. By hating, we let him die in vain; hate does nothing except cause more pain. Perhaps, although we live in another time, we can still see that, no matter what we believe; love, after all, is a universal principal. Let us look past the religion or the race or the country another is from, and see the person behind it. Perhaps when we all look at each other as people, we will stop our fighting and hating and having to go to war. Perhaps our friends and sons and daughters will not have to die protecting us anymore. Yet nor can we stand and let ourselves be trampled by those who would destroy us; but we should strive to understand, for we live in a world that is full of confusion.

Okay, I guess I did have a rant.

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