The Watchtowers of Atlantis Tremble

What if Hitler had been happy?

What if he had told a few jokes and smiled a few smiles? The world
would have let him kill far more than he killed, and to this day we
would be using some less judgmental word than ‘genocide’ to describe the
horror.

We are accustomed to viewing evil, the pure, desperate, hellish evil
that kills countless innocents and corrupts whatever it touches, as
something angry and vile and violent. An angry man is easy to spot.

But most evil is more subtle, more seductive, and comes along as gentle as a sheep.

I had occasion to hear speak in public a writer whom I admire if not
adore. The man is witty and wise, genial and gentle, and has the knack
to raise a laugh. And what a charming accent! With merely a word or a
lift of his eyebrow, he can raise a smile from an audience, or a robust
laugh, or bring a tear to the eye. I have never met anyone more
likable.

And he is a man without God, who takes a very practical view of euthanasia.

The admirable writer has lent his considerable publicity and charm
and all the goodwill all his years of hard work to advance the cause of
murder and suicide. Through documentary and public speaking, he leads
his considerable mass of loving and loyal fans to regard as normal the
horror of asking doctors to slay their patients, and to regard as
abnormal the respect for human life Western civilization once nourished.

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