When what you're reading keeps you thinking
My daughter asked, um, begged me to go to the library and check out some books on the Holocaust for her to use for a report for school. While perusing the selections I picked one up for myself: "Ultimate Price: Testimonies of Christians Who Resisted the Third Reich" selections by Annemarie S. Kidder.
I was reading about Alfred Delp and came across this passage: "For Delp, people in the Western world were being tossed to and fro between two extreme worldviews: that of an individualistic, self-seeking materialism resulting in capitalism; and that of a collectivist Bolshevism that reduced the person to a mere number and resulted in communism. A third way had to be found."
Gulp.
Delp was describing Germany in the thirties and early forties, and yet, it seemed so true to America today. So many failed to see what was happening in front of them and those who did felt helpless to change it. Those who took action were imprisoned and many died.
It certainly makes one think, and pray, for a better outcome here.
I was reading about Alfred Delp and came across this passage: "For Delp, people in the Western world were being tossed to and fro between two extreme worldviews: that of an individualistic, self-seeking materialism resulting in capitalism; and that of a collectivist Bolshevism that reduced the person to a mere number and resulted in communism. A third way had to be found."
Gulp.
Delp was describing Germany in the thirties and early forties, and yet, it seemed so true to America today. So many failed to see what was happening in front of them and those who did felt helpless to change it. Those who took action were imprisoned and many died.
It certainly makes one think, and pray, for a better outcome here.
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