The Christian right has lost touch with the true values of their religion
This month in 1944 Jane Haining died in Auschwitz. The name may not mean anything to you but it should. The Scottish Presbyterian missionary moved to Hungary in the 1930s to teach mainly Jewish children. Not to convert them, just to care and love. She refused to leave them when the war started, and after the Nazis occupied Budapest, she knew their inevitable fate. And hers. She ended her last letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.” She was 47-years-old.
But then there’s the rest, and how loud and numerous they appear. The dark obsessions and deranged conspiracy theories concerning the pandemic, plots at world domination, and the alleged war on freedom. The grotesque abuse of thecommunity, the attempting and sometimes succeeding in reversing women’s rights over their own bodies.
Nothing, alas, new about abuse and horrors committed in the name of the church, every church, and for that matter every religion and pretty much every cause and creed. That’s human nature, that’s human brokenness, perhaps that’s even original sin.
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