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Date: 26 February 2005 07:40:52
Have done a spot of morning surfing and two postings I've read have hit me this morning. One is the following quote from The Methodist Recorder which was on Connexions :
Two paragraphs from the latet edition of The Methodist Recorder
“...the camps at Auschwitz did not come into being overnight. What began as a barracks for soldiers and was then a prison for Polish dissidents, only became a place of unimaginable horror by small incremental steps. By such a process many became desensitized to suffering and allowed themselves to be complicit in the evil.
The lesson we must learn is that the time to oppose racism is not when the trains deliver their first victims to the gas chambers but when the first slogan is daubed on a wall or the first leaflet pushed through a letter-box.”
If read with the posting on Big Bulky Anglican about parralles he has picked up between aspects of what Christian Voice and the BNP are saying it makes you stop and think.
Whilst I am not a conspiracy theorist there are distinct parralles and with the tone of the forthcoming general election campaign looking increasingly centred around who can out do who in terms of immigration policy it is a time to prayerfully consider what our response should be.
I am not saying there are any simple answers (and I think too often "the left" fails to respond effectively because they claim there are), but societies which become based on fear and defending themselves against the threat of "the other" are not healthy societies. Particularly when "the other" is unknown and just becomes an excuse for becoming paranoid about anybody who is different from us (either because of their ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or age).
Thanks to Ramblin' Folkie for the link to Connexions.