History teaches us the propensity of ordinary people to do heinous things.
So the message is dont point fingers at them, it is "dont think YOU are immune"
Nazi Germany was bad enough - but consider the Rwandan Genocide.
Ordinary people "hutu" hacked millions of "tutsi" to death with machetes.
No mercy. Old . Children. Pregnant women. All of them.
It got out of hand so quickly.
One group branding the other as "cockroaches"
Even children were hacked to bits in Rwanda with the mantra "remember - the child of a snake is still a snake"
Many of them were Christians.
There were so many bodies, there was noone left to bury them.
All Christians might be interested in the books
"Left to Tell" and "Led by Faith" by Immacullee ilibagiza.
For all christians
Her tale of survived without ending up hating, and how she forgive those who hacked her family to bits.
And how her faith got her through.
I urge all to read, as a warning.
For Catholics
There is a story of "our lady of Kibeho" who prophesied the troubles and rivers of blood, a few years before it started . Her unheeded words to repent.
In books on psychology eg "influence: the psychology of persuasion - Cialdini" there are chilling proven experiments on how ordinary people can be persuaded to torture by the power of those they think are in "authority".
You and Me.
Here in the UK I see on social media vile language of hate in the interparty rhetoric
One MP has died here: could it also happen here?
The message:
We must never forget... in the wrong situation it we could all slip down the slope. ALl of us. Men have the power to be evil. Its why our Lord came.
Where were the Christians In Germany during WWII?
Thursday, Sep 27th 2018
Chilling confessions of PoWs captured by the British have laid bare the brutality and excesses of ‘ordinary’ German soldiers in the Second World War.
A book of transcripts to be published in Germany next week reveals how the honour of its old army was lost amid the frenzy to be ‘perfect, pitiless Nazis’.
In the interrogation transcripts, the German soldiers speak of the ‘fun’ and ‘pure enjoyment’ of massacring innocent civilians and enemy troops.
If you dare read it all here> The 'perfect, pitiless, Nazi': Soldiers' interviews reveal how German troops driven by 'bloodlust' killed for fun | Daily Mail Online