Thanks to Emily Guziak, Free Press correspondent, for excellent coverage of the story and the clear, incisive comments in Friday's Burlington Free Press (3/7/03) and to Henry Greenbaum for continuing to tell the true story of the Holocaust and his experiences at Auschwitz in the early 1940's. This reality must be kept continually before our eyes and our consciousness. Thanks to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, which I visited last year, for carrying the truth to our age and supporting this seminar at UVM. Those who would deny the Holocaust are misguided bigots. We cannot let their venomous lies go unrefuted. The truth must be told these days and forever.
Applause for Mr. Greenbaum for sharing your experiences! I hope the Vermont teachers who attended this event at the University of Vermont will bring the truth to their students. Genocide is not a relic of a bygone era and cannot be ignored. It must be confronted because it has happened many times (Serbia, Cambodia, Rwanda, etc.) since WW II. This crime against the human race is a travesty of evil that the United Nations is practically ineffective to prevent.
How can thinking people deny the obvious fact that evil dwells in the heart of man? Of course, good is present within people, too, but left to the devices of the heart, the sin of man will flourish unless evil is called it's true name and challenged for what it is at every turn. Our society would like to deny the reality of evil and attribute its revelation to bad upbringing, a disadvantaged youth, no chance in life, deprivation, genetic predisposition, drugs, capitalism, communism, and myriad other excuses. The suggestion that Man will evolve to a better state if provided all the correct stimuli is a myth. The only salvation for man's inherently evil heart is salvation through Jesus Christ!
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