Where Were They And Why Didn’t They Do Something?
Posted on 07.15.08 in General and there are 3 comments.
Why?
I’ve often wondered that about the people of Germany. And Alabama. And Mississippi. And Texas.
Where were all the good people?
Where were they while atrocities took place in the concentration camps? And along dark country roads? And outside children’s schools? And on city buses?
Where were the good people and why didn’t they do something?
I always asked that question indignantly and self righteously, knowing the *I* would have responded heroically.
In yesteday’s post for the 40 Day Fast, Natalie Grant talked about human trafficking and said this, “We are all called to be abolitionists.”
It floored me.
Somewhere, someone is asking, “Where are all the good people...and why don’t they *do* something?”
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I have had that thought before and then realized...wow, something like that is happening right now somewhere and I’m not doing anything about it, although I consider myself a “good, Christian person.” It can be eye-opening from that perspective.
Jul 16, 08 at 03:51 pm
Sigh. I think about this a lot, partly because my Congolese friends wonder why the world won’t come and do something that would actually save them, and partly because I know my own complicity is so deep. One of my friends is teaching a class on genocide this fall and we’ve been talking about how easy it is for normal people not only to not do the right thing, but also to get sucked in to doing the wrong thing, often wtihout ever meaning to.
It’s particularly frightening when you think about the fact that our failure to be the hands and feet of Christ means millions of people will never know that kind of love.
Jul 17, 08 at 06:55 pm
Just an interesting story to share… My father has a friend who grew up in Germany during the time of world war 2. Her father helped to hide Jews, and get them out of the country, but couldn’t do much more than that, for fear for his family. I think there were good people doing things, but the problem needed a lot of good people to band together to put a stop to these things.
Sometimes I think that the evil forces are so strong, that the “good” people need to come together. (this is going to sound stupid, maybe.. but) It’s like in the movie “A bugs life,” they were controlled, and hurt by the grasshoppers until they joined together to over rule them.
I think that is part of the point of the 40 day fast, for us to join together to stop these injustices, to do something for all the bad that is going on in the world. We can’t do it alone, or even as separate organizations, we have to join together. I know that is your point too, i’m just elaborating and thinking out loud… 
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Kaye
Jul 16, 08 at 08:32 am