All It Takes is for Them to Come for Somebody Else

Whether you are Jewish or Christian, or claim to support no particular religious or spiritual belief, you should recognize that our very culture and documents of personal freedom are 100% based upon the Judeo-Christian principles as published in the Old Testament and additionally in the New Testament of the Bible. This is fact.

Here is another fact. I was truly surprised to recently learn from the testimonies of several Messianic Jews that before their conversions they had no idea that Jesus was Jewish. Without giving it too much thought, they thought he was Catholic or something. They’d not been told and had no understanding of this fact. I know that is not true across the board, but still, I was surprised that in so many instances it is true.

Most of us would prefer to put off taking a position that could make us unpopular, controversial, or worse, put our credibility or our lives at risk. But, there comes a time when silence itself is wrong, deadly wrong.

The following are not my words, but they are words, in this time of Purim (which by no accident coincides with Palm Sunday), I am compelled to rebroadcast.

Let’s start with a quote from Edmund Burke (1729-1797), an Anglo-Irish statesman:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Do I need to tell you what this actually means?

The second quote is from Martin Niemoller following disclosures of the Nazi atrocities during the World War II Holocaust.

First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.

If you cannot see what is happening in the world at this time, if you cannot recognize the spread of blatant evil, how can you combat it, and who will be there to help you when it has devoured all the low-hanging fruit and it turns to come for you? He who screams the loudest is merely he who screams the loudest. Truth is not dependent upon volume.