The Hall of Shame
by Kathy Brown on October 26th, 2009 | 0 comments
Holocaust museums are one of the most horrific examples of evil. When my husband and I visited the one in Houston, we stopped to talk to the Jewish host at the ticket office. In the course of the conversation, we mentioned the relevance of legalized abortion in America to the concept of genocide. He seemed absolutely stunned at the connection between the two. This escaped his attention because he failed to examine the ideas that propelled the astounding events we think could never be repeated. In reality, the worldview reflected in a culture will determine if there will be another generational hall of shame.
It is startling to compare the current cultural climate to the pre-Hitler regime. The key component that should get our attention is that our nation has largely adopted the secular view of the value of human life. (Foundational Presupposition Chart) This is taught in public schools through early and frequent sex education programs that have a “values neutral” approach to abortion, birth control of all sorts, and selective reduction in the case of multiple embryo implantation. In addition, evolution is the primary explanation in science class for the origin of our species. This indoctrination is really a philosophical underpinning which results in ethical relativism. Since the majority of Americans go through the state system of education, there is little resistance to this morality based on materialistic pragmatism.
In addition to public advancement of relativism, there seems to be a step toward empowering the state to take control of more and more, due to economic problems. This, too, is similar to the private citizen surrender in the 1930’s. Hitler’s assurance of a better country enabled unsuspecting followers to accept his leadership. Pitting one race of people against another ushered in a mentality of superiority that fed the regime’s sense of rightful bullying.
Before the German government was able to begin its “purification”, another incremental move had been made. The most professional and highly educated of the society had to be culled; opposition had to be silenced, and those teaching the “right” views had to be rewarded. The physicians that partnered in experimenting on the mentally and physically handicapped thought they were on the edge of intellectual advancement, an attitude fostering elitism. Fear kept dissenters from speaking up, and those who noticed something was radically wrong quietly kept to themselves. They continued to contribute to the institutions that incubated “correct” thinking.
It may be added that today’s “tolerance” contributes to muffling those who disagree with a ruling class. This post-modern concept, that all ideas are equal, has been ingrained in young people year after year, and it is now a prevalent view. Accepting all precepts without an ability to measure its foundation or ultimate outcome is frightening. Verbalizing those concerns is essential to freedom.
Strolling through the halls of a museum honoring the lives lost under tyranny is a heart-wrenching reminder of wickedness. It is also a wake-up call to remain vigilant and vigorous in the fight against steps that lead to such disaster: we do not want be referred to someday as the comfortable, complicit ones in the next generation’s museum of disgrace.
From the Word of God:
"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1:29
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