History teaches

History teaches

“In the aftermath of Nazi Germany we must once and for all understand that culture and crematoria are not mutually exclusive.  Scientific progress does not ensure moral protection, nor can secular humanism produce saints.  People will always find reasons to justify any kind of behaviour.
-Rabbi Benjamin Blech, congregational rabbi and ancient professor of Talmud, Understanding Judaism.  The Basics of Deed and Creed (1991)
The one thing history teaches that no matter how well educated and cultured a people are they can be led astray.
The German people of the 1930's and 40's were well educated yet they were led down a path that led to destruction and the murder of millions by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.
Throughout history individuals both secular and those who have twisted various religions for their own destructive purposes have arisen causing the deaths of millions..
Society needs moral absolutes men need God.
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society.  Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
                                                                                                             Abba Hillel Silver
The writer of Ecclesiastes got it right when he said,
“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole  duty  of man. 
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” 
Ecclesiastes12:13,14
It is only when man fails to recognize there is a just and Holy God whom he we one day have to answer to, that he will do such horrible things to his fellow man.
It is when men twist and pervert the teachings of God to suit their own ends that horrific acts take place against both individuals and society as a whole.
Secular teachings and Atheism have little to offer society as a whole other than a few nice moral teachings that are essentially unenforceable.
I know Atheist that live up to a far higher ethical standard than some who claim to be Christians and I applaud them. Still all of their good deeds and morals and those of millions of good men and women like them around, the world cannot stop despotic groups like IS or other terrorist.
It took a world war and the death of in excess of 56,000,000 people soldiers and innocent men, women and children to bring Hitler’s satanic regime to trial.
The leaders of terrorist groups today like the Nazis of the 1930's and 40's have a perverted sense of what is right and wrong and do not fear God.
We live very much in a world that is becoming more and more secular. Where individuals and families are excluding God from their lives.
In doing so we are going down a slippery slope that leads to a lake of fire and brimstone.
Without moral absolutes society decays.
The answer to the worlds problems is for all people everywhere to turn to God.
Think about it, even if just the ten commandments were obeyed by all people. Commandments given to Moses by God. There would be no murders, therefore no war, no terrorism. Crime would end, as would adultery and other evils that plague society.
Think about it if men recognized and believed the fact that they would one day stand before God and be judged for the things they had done, both good and bad, our world would be a much better place.
Please think about it.