A righteous Gentile passes into history
Tuesday May 13, 2008
Categories: Catholicism
Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto, has died: Sendler, a Roman Catholic, was born in Otwock, outside Warsaw, on February 15, 1910. Her father was a physician who directed...
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If memory serves, this is not the first time you have lauded someone who made heroic efforts to save lives during the Holocaust. I just finished reading Samantha Powers book on genocide recently. After the Holocaust we said "never again". We quote heroic figures who offered a hand when needed. Yet, we continue to ignore mass killings. Is the age of heroes over? Do we only risk ourselves to save the lives of children or neighbors that we know? Only when it is our own country committing the killing?
The whole world, not just the US, seems to have decided that it is too expensive or too difficult to interfere with mass killings. To be fair it is often difficult to figure out who is in the wrong. Is it worth spending lives in situations with ambiguous politics?
Steve
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May her memory be a blessing.
Steve
Yet, we continue to ignore mass killings.
HA! If only that was all we were doing. All too often we fund mass killings.
Ask the Australians why the UN refused to vote in sanction on Indonesia for slaughtering a tenth of the East Timorese.
Ask the Americans and French who buys Burma's oil that pays the Burmese military junta's salary.
Ask Japanese, Chinese, and Indians who buys the Sudan's oil that pays for the Janjaweed milita in Darfus.
Yes, we 'ignore' mass killings.
We ignore mass killings because they are so common. For the most part, David, that's because mass killing is something that Humans are very good at, and in job lots, too.
But that does not, however, justify ignoring or slighting Irena Sendler's actions. When the Christ returns to Earth, I predict that Irena Sendler's name--just like 4-year-old Lindsay Paige Johnson's name--shall be written in gold.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The guy who made a movie won.
Wha? I wasn't attempting to slight Irena Sendler's actions at all. I was slightly everyone else's actions, who not only don't do what she did, but support the opposite and let Chevron buy gas from the Burma junta, pumped using slave labor, so our gas is a buck cheaper.
Not everyone is a hero, which is understandable, but it appears that everyone is willing to be a villain if they can do it very indirectly and never see the suffering. Despite the expression, sometimes all that is necessary to stop evil is for good men to do nothing, and we can't even do that.
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