Conscious vs. Conformity

This is why you are obligated to fight, even if it isn't harming you yet. You will be next.

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Conscious vs. Conformity

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Adolph Hitler’s systematic march towards the death count of 20.9 million.{*1*} Czechs,homosexuals,handicapped,Italians,Jews,jobless,Poles,Serbs,Ukrainians,and many other innocent noncombatants is so inconceivable that a principal reaction to the horror of Hitler’s Holocaust is ‘How could the working class German people standby or worse yet participate?’

The silence and lack of resistance was vividly captured here:

“They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
- Reverend Martin Niemoller,Lutheran Pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937

Notice the poem’s author was a Christian Pastor,a man employed by his devotion to God to champion God’s law –the Ten Commandments,Love Thy Neighbor –and even he didn’t protest,at least not initially{*2*},the human slaughterhouses. Why the indifference?

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you
commit atrocities/injustices.”
- Voltaire,defender of civil liberties,including freedom of religion,1694-1778

Hitler,the democratically elected ruler of Germany from 1933 to 1945,commanded both Catholic and Protestant Christian leaders to preach ‘unconditional subjugation’ to Hitler under the pretense of the Holy Bible –specifically,the Book of Romans,Chapter 13. When Hitler’s aim was to disarm Germany’s citizenry,Christian leadership obediently mollified their congregations with Romans 13. When Hitler’s aim was to abduct dissidents in the dark quite of the night without due process –Romans 13. When the burning flesh of her lawful neighbors manufactured the air unbreathable –Romans 13. Etc.{*3*}

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