Between 1931 and 1941, Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia gobbled up a dozen or so small nations while the people in the "universality of human rights" espousing parts of the world (hello America !) sat silently on their hands , bystanders at a schoolyard bullying session.
They said, basically, that Manchuria, Albania, Ethiopia , Czechoslovakia , Poland, Denmark, Belgium et al were not members of their national family and hence not invitees at their dining table.
So the troubles of the Poles and Danes (or American blacks and other national minorities) were of no concern to them.
They espoused exactly the same "closed" attitude to the matter of who dines at the common table as did Hitler ,the dark-haired Aryan wannabe , regarding the German citizens who were Jews and Romas.
Jesus practised an open commensality - inviting all humanity to be part of his family and invited all to dine around his common table.
The 'princes of HIS churches' circa 1931 to 1945, by and large did not practise Jesus's open commensality.
They preferred greatly to save their own church buildings and pensions rather than try and save other human lives.
Or their own souls : for martyrs the cause, these men definitely were not.
A few others did more, gave their lives to save Jews and others and the moral import of their stories are being told well.
But Henry Dawson also gave up his live to aid all humanity ( advocating "open" commensality for all humanity needing life-saving penicillin) .
His story, along with that of others like Robert Pulvertaft and Jimmy Duhig, has never been told fully and completely in all its moral implications.
"all Life is family : Agape's Manhattan Project" tries to address this omission....
They said, basically, that Manchuria, Albania, Ethiopia , Czechoslovakia , Poland, Denmark, Belgium et al were not members of their national family and hence not invitees at their dining table.
So the troubles of the Poles and Danes (or American blacks and other national minorities) were of no concern to them.
They espoused exactly the same "closed" attitude to the matter of who dines at the common table as did Hitler ,the dark-haired Aryan wannabe , regarding the German citizens who were Jews and Romas.
Jesus practised an open commensality - inviting all humanity to be part of his family and invited all to dine around his common table.
The 'princes of HIS churches' circa 1931 to 1945, by and large did not practise Jesus's open commensality.
They preferred greatly to save their own church buildings and pensions rather than try and save other human lives.
Or their own souls : for martyrs the cause, these men definitely were not.
A few others did more, gave their lives to save Jews and others and the moral import of their stories are being told well.
But Henry Dawson also gave up his live to aid all humanity ( advocating "open" commensality for all humanity needing life-saving penicillin) .
His story, along with that of others like Robert Pulvertaft and Jimmy Duhig, has never been told fully and completely in all its moral implications.
"all Life is family : Agape's Manhattan Project" tries to address this omission....
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