Hattip to The Catholic Key Blog. Comments of President Obama at the Holocaust Memorial in Washington.
“It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal used to kill; education that can enlighten used to rationalize away basic moral impulses; the bureaucracy that sustains modern life used as the machinery of mass death — a ruthless, chillingly efficient system where many were responsible for the killing, but few got actual blood on their hands.”
Good post.
Two posts ago (the Colbert Report post) has 0bama lecturing us about losing our moral bearings. This is one sick dude.
Shameless.
I don’t know which possibility is scarier: that he may be completely oblivious of the obvious parallel, or that he is perfectly aware of it and doesn’t care.
The major challenge for Catholics in the next four years will be to mount a credible opposition without allowing it to be characterized as “partisan politics.” Won’t be easy.
Great post Donald!
gary,
The major challenge for Catholics in the next four years will be to mount a credible opposition without allowing it to be characterized as “partisan politics.” Won’t be easy.
not with his communications department in bed with pretty much the whole of the media, and liberal Catholics like Kmiec shilling for him.