If you think of Auschwitz think of this
Your children will not die by means of gas
All of us will walk that final path
But we have lived our lives so on we pass
The Jews of Europe killed without a word.
The death of God no longer feels absurd
What they might have given forever lost.
Prescription murder,there will be a cost.
As we walk around in obscene dress
The rational and objective caused this mess
Be thankful that our God did not choose us.
Yet being unchosen and alive is worse.
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/22/study_religious_more_likely_to_lie_for_financial_gain_partner/
I think it’s not so surprising amongst Christians because Jesus came to save sinners and so more sinners go to Church…They need salvation but it must take time!That’s why we have Confession/Or maybe people who go to Church are from lower social classes and so are short of cash?I always found rich people avoid tax and so on regardless of religion.
Maybe “trying “to be good is counterproductive!
I’m not sure about Jews….I knew a lot at work and they were all more than honest.Also they seem more intelligent…. after all they invented the alphabet writing,story telling,ethics,morals,poetry…..God!Why should they steal?
Now don’t blame me…read the research!
Noone saw me,no one met my eyes.
I felt the life inside me wilt and die
Of no value to the human race
If no-one saw them they would not exist
Leonard Cohen”s name was on a list.
I almost burned away in hot distress
The charred remains would have no fixed address.
Like the Jews who wandered for a space,
No eyes no gold ,no teeth, I am a Jew
I have no tongue to speak, nor language too.
http://bostonreview.net/vivian-gornick-hannah-arendt-on-being-jewish
I came across this because I am interested in Vivian Gornick’s writing but as it is about Hanna Arendt that makes it doubly interesting.I find it hard to comprehend the development of Israel and why some Jewish people are so against it.This clarifies it a little
This is well worth reading,if only for the history of one Jewish man’s survival of the Nazi‘s attmept to wipe out Hungarian Jews.I feel his books would be worth reading.I shall post if and when I read them
How my heart sings 