The Holocaust was a watershed event in the history of mankind, in which 6 million Jews - one-third of the world's Jewish population - were exterminated. But today the word is used in ways that cheapen it....
The Holocaust was the story of ordinary Germans: students, doctors, men and women of culture, who were not demented, who listened to Bach and Beethoven, who loved their families, who were not diagnosed as psychopaths, but who, nonetheless for 6 years, rounded up men, women and children and escorted them to the gas chambers.
...[I]t is not abortion, and it is not even horrific violations of civil rights.
The enormity of the crimes of the Holocaust was such that if you were to try to call out 2,000 of the names every day of the 6 million who perished, it would take more than 8 years to complete the task. That's what a holocaust is.
~Rabbi Marvin Hier, Los Angeles Times opinion column, June 29
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(Rabbi Marvin Hier entitled his opinion piece at the LA Times "Holocaust: a huge word made small".)
The Holocaust was horrific. I agree when Rabbi Hier states that the word is improperly used at times. But I believe that the word "holocaust" (in lower case) can most certainly describe the death of 50 million babies by abortion.
Hier quotes the commandant of Auscwhitz, Rudolph Hoess, who, I imagine could have made his living as an abortionist. Imagine him greeting a woman in an examining room, preparing to kill this pregnant woman's child:
Hoess said: I also watched how some women, who suspected or knew what was happening, even with the fear of death all over their faces, still managed enough strength to play with their children and talk to them lovingly. Once, a woman with four children, all holding each other by the hand to help the smallest ones, passed by me. She stepped very close to me and whispered, pointing to her four children, 'How can you murder these beautiful, darling children? Don't you have any heart?'"
I wonder if Rabbi Marvin Heir is pro-abortion-choice. I pray he is not.
That's an interesting piece, but he is wrong. Abortion is a holocaust. It is the dehumanization and senseless (and methodical) killing of human beings for personal gain. If abortion isn't a holocaust, then nothing is a holocaust.
Posted by: MaryLee at June 29, 2010 12:46 PMAnd abortion is the story of ordinary Americans:Students, doctors...who were not diagnosed as psyhopaths,but who, notheheless, walk into an abortionists office and pay for someone to kill their children.
Posted by: lauren at June 29, 2010 1:00 PMMODS: Please delete my post ABOVE due to correction. Thanks.
lauren,
I definitely see a parallel as I stated above, but, IMHO, the supporters of the holocaust/abortion were/are NOT completely in their "right" minds. Although normal is difficult to define, I'd say that it is NOT NORMAL for a human to kill human babies as much as it is NOT NORMAL to eliminate a whole ethnic group. It's despicable and morally wrong.
Hier is right. 6 million Jews (and others) were murdered. It would take years to call out there names.
How many millions of babies have been murdered now? According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher institute, in the United States alone, "From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred." http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
How long to call out THEIR names, Rabbi? How long?
Posted by: Elisabeth at June 29, 2010 1:33 PMI'm disgusted by this article and the man. I emailed him.
Posted by: Janis Nihart at June 29, 2010 1:51 PMHow long to call out THEIR names, Rabbi? How long?
Posted by: Elisabeth at June 29, 2010 1:33 PM
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They have been considered so inconsequential and subhuman that most of them were never even given names. :(
Posted by: Kel at June 29, 2010 2:30 PMJesus was referring to religious leaders like this when He characterized them as "blind leading the blind".
How sad and pathetic.
He's got no clue and he spews his ignorance as if he's some kind of authority.
Deplorable.
And the children keep dying...
Posted by: Ed at June 29, 2010 2:51 PMPosted by: Kel at June 29, 2010 2:30 PM
"They have been considered so inconsequential and subhuman that most of them were never even given names." :(
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Kel,
I believe I understand what you mean and I am not quarreling with your words, but tho man/woman may forget, HE does not.
If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without HIS notice and HE has numbered the hairs on our heads, the ONE who gives us life and breath, knows every single one of these 'little ones' by name and HE does not consider a single one of them as 'inconsequential'.
The angels of these 'little ones' behold HIS face continually.
Even tho their mother may may forget them, HE will not.
HE has made these promises to all HIS children.
Posted by: yor bro ken at June 29, 2010 6:19 PMPosted by: yor bro ken at June 29, 2010 6:19 PM
I couldn't agree more, Ken. Well said. :)
(And yes, I was referring to the way humanity has treated them, not the Lord.)
Posted by: Kel at June 29, 2010 9:09 PM