Monday, October 26, 2009

No Way!

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

War represents a failure of imagination.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

When illness strikes, I have trouble focusing on other things. I can become obsessed with my ailment and allow it to cast a shadow over the health in other parts of my system and my life. I remind myself: it is well with my soul.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“No Way!”


[No way He said that!
(And hats off to research associate Alice Martin-Adkins for discovering this un-quote.]

D. Blog: Didn’t Happen, You Say?

Alice and I spent a delightful afternoon with our friend Walter, a teenager when he survived a Nazi concentration camp. The visit brought to mind the ludicrous claim made by a few that the Holocaust didn’t happen, that it’s all a hoax. Can anybody, even the Iranian President, truly believe that claim? The claim itself must be some sort of hoax, a ploy, a sham, a distraction, a further attempt to discredit Jews, blame them even for their own victimization.

Quite apart from all the physical evidence and the personal stories of millions of people like Walter whose relatives were murdered, isn’t it telling that we do not hear Germans say it never happened.

No comments: