In further commemoration of Yom Hashoah, I wanted to link to LAmom’s latest post on Darfur, Sudan. She has done an excellent job of keeping this tragedy on my radar screens, and I would hope that we would not lose sight of the fact that this is another example of man’s inhumanity to man, and that we must do what we can to bring it to an end.
The troubling question for me, as a pacifist, is what really can be done? Obviously, we can contribute to humanitarian assistance. We can advocate that our government take a moral stance. But what else can we do?
In dire circumstances such as Darfur and even more clearly, the Holocaust, is war ever justified? I suspect that if we were truly committed to our faith, we could nonviolently overturn these types of horrors (at the cost of our own lives).
What can we do, as followers of Jesus who believe he calls us to nonviolence, not only to provide humanitarian assistance, but to actually stop the violence of others? I’m not sure, but I would be interested in what others have to say on this.
Today is Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Eric Muller has posted some incredibly moving pictures on his blog to commemorate. Note: some of the images are quite graphic.
When man’s inhumanity to man seemingly has no bounds, it requires those of us who seek good to let our love also have no bounds. Let us work toward the day when no group of people will ever need to fear that they may be singled out for extermination (or even violence of any kind) because of who they are.
