Holocaust

While in Washington D.C Todd and I went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was so hard to make it through the place without crying, I cried the whole time. There were quotes on the wall from Hitler, it gives you an insight to the insanity that was Hitler. One has to wonder how Hitler formed his ideas and what kind of man would think a mass of people not simply the Jewish, but intellectuals and homosexuals were beneath the European bloodline. I would think that if he was a Christian man, at least he would know that Christ was Jewish.

This poster was hanging outside the door. Too often we do see hatred, but we don't do anything or say anything. In between the "Think About What You Saw" it says "when you see injustice, when you see hatred, and when you hear about genocide." These things are happening and there are still people out there who think along the same lines of Hitler.

As Christians our prayers need to be strong and focused on issues like this. We need to use them as a weapon against this kind of thing. We need to stop hatred and injustice and the best place to begin is within our own churches/communities. Too often churches judge and don't accept people for who they are. When we begin to follow the motto "Judge No One Minister To All" which is the motto for The River Of Life Christian Fellowship, we can start going into the communities and changing viewpoints about certain things.

We need to remember and keep the things that happened during the Holocaust in our minds we cannot forget what happened and how many people died and suffered! There was a section of the museum where you can sit in a glass room and listen to stories from survivors of Auschwitz the worst concentration camp. To hear the stories in their own voices/words broke your heart, but at the same time gave hope because they were some of the lucky ones to survive. Many aren't that lucky today. People are dying everyday because of the same mindset: that they are inferior to others. This is the farthest thing from what Jesus taught.

One the side are some books everyone needs to read to somewhat understand the horror that happened as well as Schindler's List.