In today’s On the Square , Mark Tooley discusses an Anglican priest who has decided that it’s perfectly appropriate to compare environmental issues to the Holocaust:
The priest recalls the Garden of Righteous Gentiles in Israel that honors ten Boom, Schindler, and others who risked themselves to save Jews from the Holocaust. He can “picture another sacred memorial, one that God is planning for those non-apathetic bystanders of his creation” to be called “The Garden of Righteous Stewards Among the Nations.”
Read the rest here . For more on this subject, check out Robert Loewenberg’s 1982 article, ” The Trivialization of the Holocaust as an Aspect of Modern Idolatry .”
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