So I’ve been watching the Band of Brothers series with a group of guys every Tuesday night for the last couple months. Last night we watched Episode 9: Why We Fight. It’s the point in the war when the American troops discover the Nazi concentration camps.
This is the second time I’ve worked through this series, and both times I get to this episode and it stops me in my tracks. I can’t fathom how something like this could ever happen. How one person, much less an entire group of people, could be so evil. And it always angers me to realize that there were people looking the other way as this was going on, simply to save their own skin.
But would I be any different? Easy to say while safe behind a computer screen. But what if I was faced with this type of decision in my lifetime. What would I do? I hope that my convictions reach a point where that won’t be a hard decision.
Let’s never allow ourselves to forget that this happened, and be aware that these things are still going on.
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmond Burke
As a Christ Follower, apathy is NOT an option.
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