These are the words on the outside of the national Holocaust Museum. I took the Bound4LIFE team there yesterday. I’m in DC this week in preparation for the opening of the Supreme Court on Monday. We didn’t make it all the way through the memorial; that would be one long emotionally exhausting day. We did get through the first chronological part covering Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and anti-semitism.
One of the first phases of the coming genocide struck me as eerily familiar. It was called “Operation T4.” It was Hitler’s early attempt to move the morals of the masses. It involved the systematic execution and termination of disabled people and the physically and mentally handicapped for the purpose of racial cleansing. Ovens burned bright and filled quiet streets with the smell of smoke as physicans cooperated with the regime in what was termed “mercy killings.” Communities remained silent but unsettled as the collective conscience was sang a lullaby with the lyrics “They're better off this way and so are we.”
Ultimately, clergy and ordinary folk raised enough of a moral outcry that the official “Operation T4” was stopped. However, it was merely the name that ceased. The executions continued under different orders, and the moral outcry was dulled.
Yes, it all sounds rather familiar and current.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Remember What You Saw
Posted by Matt Lockett at 4:06 PM 0 comments
Labels: Adolf Hitler, Holocaust Museum, Operation T4
Saturday, September 22, 2007
In Tallahassee...
I'm in Tallahassee, FL this weekend teaching and helping to kick off Bound4LIFE Tallahassee. These guys rock! The room was packed last night, and we had 75 intercessors on the Wall today. We're working with the amazing group of fireballs that is IHOP Tallahassee.
That right. I typed the word “Tallahassee” four times. Make that five.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Planned Parenthood's Recent Hypocrisy
This article is a must-read in light of all the negative national media attention they're receiving.
Posted by Matt Lockett at 5:48 PM 6 comments
Labels: Alan Sears, Alliance Defense Fund, Planned Parenthood
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Shroud Is Being Lifted
This is the same thing that happened on Selma Bridge when the skirt of injustice was blown up for the whole world to see.
Posted by Matt Lockett at 1:26 PM 5 comments
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
Brownback in My Clubhouse
Senator Brownback visited our neighborhood this evening, and there was a great turnout. Maybe a couple hundred people turned out to meet and hear the Senator as he stumped South Carolina for the presidential bid. It was great to see everyone coming together for something like this on Labor Day. There were people there from Morningstar Fellowship Church, ZHOP, The Cause, All Nations Church, other local churches and of course Bound4LIFE.
Afterward, the whole group and the Senator walked around the lake with candles from the neighborhood clubhouse to The Cause Prayer Room.
Posted by Matt Lockett at 8:49 PM 1 comments
Labels: Labor Day, Sam Brownback, South Carolina