Modern-Day Concentration Camps

In the book Breaking Free, Beth Moore shows how the ongoing themes of politics and warfare in scripture are actually symbols to represent captivity and freedom in our own lives, in various ways. She writes--and I absolutely agree--that we are all in spiritual bondage in one way or another, and usually we don't even realize it.

 

Well last night I saw the movie Sarah's Key, based on a novel I really enjoyed. This story takes place during the holocaust, and seeing it on film brings it to life so much more. Every time I think of the holocaust the one big question that comes to my mind is this: Of course we believe in evil and there could be a leader or two doing horrible things. But what amazes me is how thousands of soldiers area also doing those horrible things without even thinking about it; they essentially must become unconscious to their own actions. How else could a human being inflict such pain on another?

 

So having Breaking Free fresh on my mind, I saw this holocaust in a whole new perspective. If warfare is an ongoing symbol of spiritual matters in our own everyday lives, what else could this concept apply to?

 

Is our society free of genocide? Do we ever harm entire groups of human beings without real cause, without even being conscious of the atroticity we are committing- just because our leaders or our forebearers did it?  How are we in bondage without even realizing it??

 

I would like to hear your thoughts, but a few things come to my mind within seconds. In this country we inflict harm on millions of innocent baby boys, for no other reason than blind tradition and unquestioned ignorance. Not only boys; we continue to inject poisons and make our babies and children cry out in pain multiple times a year - but why?? Another group of people harmed is those diagnosed with cancer, who are given false information and kept from the truth, while also being fed poison and draining bank accounts.

Just like the concentratio camps, we have millions of doctors standing in as "soliders" enforcing these evil orders which really don't make any sense at all, and if they only stopped to think about it and open their very eyes, they would realize the atrocities their own hands are committing.