Dear Liberal Christian,

As you move through the Holocaust Museum, biblical words also appear in the circular Hall of Remembrance, a solemn space where memorial candles can be lit and an eternal flame burns.  One is a quotation from Genesis: “And the Lord said, 'What have you done?  Listen, your brother's blood is crying out from the ground.'”

Any Christian who contemplates those words—'What have you done?'—must do some soul-searching about identity as it pertains to Israel. Soul-searching regarding both genocidal events: the past one, as in the Holocaust, and the current ongoing plan of genocide implemented by the Islamic jihadists.  If one really does their homework it is painfully easy to see that, as Professor John K. Roth has put it, “…while Christianity was not a sufficient condition for the Holocaust, nevertheless, it was a necessary condition for that disaster.” 

We must confront the fact that apart from Christianity's anti-Jewish history, the Holocaust could not have happened.  And likewise, given the hypothetical occurrence of strong, unequivocal Christian resistance and protest against Nazi genocidal policy, the Holocaust may never have gotten off the ground.  The same is true today of standing with Israel against her jihadist enemies.  Silence will embolden the enemy, resistance will weaken the enemy.

Remembering what we have done wrong, or not done right, can be hard, painful work, but it can also remind us that, as post-Holocaust Christians, we must return to our roots to remind us who we are, who we ought to be as followers of the Jewish Messiah and as citizens of the spiritual commonwealth of Israel. To do so is to become what we ought to be when at our very best.  As part of our estrangement from our own identity, we must examine our hearts as to what went wrong and how we strayed so far from who we were made by God to be.  We must "Zakar!" ... in Hebrew, that is, "Remember!"

Another biblical quotation, also in the Hall of Remembrance, says this:

"Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.  Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise." 

These are words from Deuteronomy that are inscribed above the eternal flame burning near the spot where soil from the Nazi death camps is kept.  Those words should have a deep affect upon the heart of Christians who care about righting the wrong of the past by never letting Israel's enemies visit such persecution and death upon the Jewish people again.  We are witnesses.  We are our brother’s keeper.

It's significant that the words of Isaiah appear in the entry hall to the Holocaust Museum.  And it is also significant that the words of Deuteronomy appear in the Hall of Remembrance, at the end of a visit.  We begin as witnesses and we end as witnesses, telling our children the truth about the past, and what we have done today to make tomorrow different.

Do not emulate Judas Iscariot, betraying Israel as a large part of Christendom has already done, publicly blaming her for Arab terrorism and intransigence, publicly demonizing her for defending her people from Islamic jihadist hatred.  As Jesus did nothing to deserve death, neither has Israel.  Israel is certainly not sinless, but they are not deserving of extinction as a nation, either.

Wake up, be diligent in your pursuit of truth.  Be counted among the righteous.  Refuse to listen to the ghost of the voice of Nazi propaganda as heard in liberal mass media of the West, in our schools and universities, and as preached through Liberal Christianity's distorted gospel of false peace.

Be less like Cain and more like Abel, and certainly, have nothing in common with Judas Iscariot. 

Shalom... and pray for the shalom of Jerusalem,

Dan Hennessy