Our Leaders Need A Bit of Humility

Over at Crisis Magazine a theologian named Regis Martin has an article entitled Yes, It Can Happen Here, in which he recounts Bishop Galen's sermon calling out the Nazi practice of killing those deemed to be "life not worthy of life." It should be obvious that the thinking which leads to such actions is deeply evil. It involves turning away from God, who made each and every one of us in His image.

In the most scathing terms, the bishop denounced the wholesale killing of those whom the state had deemed unfit to live—“The destruction of life not worthy of life,” or Lebensunwertes Leben, to quote the official Nazi designation for eliminating entire categories of unwanted life. The “Lion of Münster,” as Count Clemens August von Galen came to be called, was having none of it.

Recounting in heartbreaking detail what was taking place all across Germany, of incurably ill and defective patients being rounded up for shipment to secret gas chambers, their ashes to be returned to grieving families upon request, his sermon so enraged Nazi officialdom that he was at once arrested, only to be released shortly thereafter, owing to widespread public protest.

Please read the rest, gentle readers, because you, like me, may notice similarities to events happening today. Of particular concern is the thinking of World Economic Forum futurist Yuval Noah Harari who has some ideas about what to do with what he calls "useless humans." Of course, what both of these ideas sprout from is the original sin, believing ourselves to be God. If we are God, then we can take the life and death of others in our own hands. We can determine who should live and who should die.

As Christians, we can easily see the hubris and the arrogance of Harari and people who think like him. Who appointed him to make these sorts of decisions about me or my family? Certainly I was never asked. But when people turn away from God, as Harari has done, this is what comes out of his mouth. And Harari is thinking much bigger that even the Nazis did, though we are talking only about matters of degree, not kind:

And, of course, given the implicit logic, why limit the practice of euthanizing to only the ill and the infirm? Why not extend it to others, to whole peoples, in fact, determined—by those who know best—to be unfit, less than human even. Jews, for example. Such a lot of them, too, just waiting to be eliminated. Why not, therefore, transpose the technology of extermination onto a much larger canvas and construct countless factories of death, equipped with state-of-the-art gas ovens for the swift and efficient removal of all the enemies of the German Reich?

Martin is at pains to point out that we are not (yet) living in the sort of nightmare that was Nazi Germany. And that is true, but there are troubling parallels nonetheless. for instance, we are keeping political prisoners by keeping accused January 6 rioters in solitary confinement for so far a year and a half. And Democrats are actively attempting to keep Republicans off the ballot. And of course, our scavenger...er...ruling class isn't hiding the fact they want to turn America over to the WEF.

In addition to electing someone other than the current crop of scavengers to be our leaders, perhaps we should also demand that they show some humility.