What We’re Fighting: The American Holocaust

Today, we live in a culture full of deceptions. It seems that, everywhere we turn these days, people are pushing for some cause that they proclaim will surely make the world a better place. And, of course, regardless of what they are truly fighting for, their causes have always and will always have some appealing slogan attached to them. In the midst of all this confusion, it is no hard thing to come to the wrong conclusions. However, after each of these championed causes has taken its turn, one factor will determine whether they were, in the end, profitable to humanity or not. That factor, without a doubt, is time: only by looking back to the pages of history may we accurately assess the ultimate success or failure of a cause or idea.

Thus, as we endeavor to determine the good or evil of a cause at the present, our first step should certainly be to examine the pages of history for a similar cause, in which the motivations, the methods, and the results contain a striking resemblance to current events. As the saying goes, “History repeats itself.”; and by examining history, we just might be able to correctly begin to make an educated assessment of the events and causes of our own day.

By drawing parallels from three separate periods of history, this short film does exactly this. What do these three periods in time, the Holocaust, slavery, and modern-day abortion actually have in common? Well, as the short film portrays, the answer to this question bears remarkable importance to our lives today.

First of all, these three periods all have the same motivating philosophy behind them, a philosophy that accomplished arguably the most horrific periods of the devaluing of human life that the world has ever seen. For the Nazis, this philosophy took full form in the driving force of the Holocaust known today as the science of eugenics. This “science” endeavored to produce a “master race” by getting rid of the “weeds” of society by means of elimination. Using this philosophy as the driving force of their actions, the Nazis justified their massive slaughter of the Jews by proclaiming that they were simply less than human. The slave trade exhibited the same kind of philosophy as well. The slave traders could only capture and enslave the Africans, if they could justify their actions by asserting that the Africans were less than human. Likewise, at present, the 4,000 abortions that happen every day in America magnify this philosophy to even greater heights, for we can only kill them if first assume that the unborn are less than human. And thus, each of these undermines the sanctity of all human life that exists because “God created man in His own image” (Gen. 1:27).

Secondly, we see another striking similarity in that, at each of their prospective time periods, slavery, the Holocaust, and abortion today were and are promoted as great benefits to society. During the Holocaust, the Nazis held firmly to the belief that they were doing a favor to the human race by eliminating the Jews and thus, they heralded their slaughter of the Jews as a victory for all of society. At the time of the slave-trade, many held to the belief that slaves added a great boost to the economy of various farms and plantations and this belief, when freely proclaimed, added extra strength to the slave trade and made it out to be a victory for economic growth. Today, our culture constantly holds up abortion as a victory of “choice” and a symbol of the precious freedom that we have in our country. Thus each of these evils in society has been cloaked to the point where it no longer maintains any association with evil, but, rather, it escapes untouched into an association with good.

However, there is one obvious difference which we must not fail to acknowledge. That difference is this: whereas the Holocaust and the slave trade (in America, at least) have passed away into infamy, the evil of abortion is happening right now; it happened nearly 4,000 times today in America alone. How often do we look back in history to the Holocaust and conclude that, had it happened in our own lifetime, we would have surely done something about it? Well, it is happening right here in your lifetime; it is happening right now. And so, only one question remains: will you take a stand for life in the midst of our modern Holocaust of abortion? History awaits your decision.

“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?” ~Proverbs 24:11-12