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~~March 2, 2016~~

THIS REALITY ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF PASTOR NIEMOLLER

Why do I use this graphic with the pastor’s poem?

Because in any sane mind, we find hard time explaining the state of American politics.

Most of all rise of Donald Trump.

He’s come after almost every ethnic groups, many established personalities and caters to white, right-wing fundamentalists.

If you are lucky not to be in any of these groups, consider that, when it’s your time, no one will be there to rescue you.

Maybe this is what’s happened in the Middle East.

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“They came first for the Communists,
and I did not speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak up, because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I did not speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time, no one was left to speak up for me.”
Pastor Martin Niemöller

Myriad versions of Pastor Niemöller’s original quote began circulating in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, yet his exhortative words on the perilous pitfalls of political and social apathy couldn’t be more germane than they are today.

Niemöller originally intended to warn against passive detachment in believing dangerous power persecuting one group wouldn’t eventually seek to target all, as occurred during the Nazis’ rise to power.

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~~September 23, 2015~~

‘FRANCIS EFFECT’ HAS TAKEN HOLD

Within two years of becoming pope, Pope Francis now has an effect named after him.

This “Francis effect” provides both comfort and challenges to Catholics, according to a panel of U.S. Catholic leaders speaking during a March 10 teleconference organized by Faith in Public Life.

Pope Francis “challenges those on the left and the right,” said Kim Daniels, a senior adviser to the group Catholic Voices. For the right, she added, the challenge is “a fresh look at poverty”; for the left, “a fresh look at how to build a culture of life.”

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http://catholicvoicesusa.org/after-his-two-years-as-pope-francis-effect-has-taken-hold/

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