Dear editor,
In reference to the Holocaust, Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
The silence today in America is deafening.
Despite the release of hours of video and transcripts documenting the callous, methodical bartering of human body parts from abortions over drinks, one is hard pressed to find scant mention outside of social media circles.
Despite (Planned Parenthood's) managers and directors detailing how pregnancies are chosen to fill orders, procedures dictated to preserve desired samples — nothing.
Presented with laughing technicians parsing through hands, hearts and entire bodies, there is no outcry.
C.S. Lewis once said, “the greatest evil is not now done…in concentration camps and labor camps … But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet [wo]men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like … the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
How prophetic he was.
The Nazi Adolf Eichmann said he would "leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
I wonder if you “Little Eichmanns” are just as satisfied, as you have far surpassed him and get rewarded and praised while other voices are discounted — or worse, ignored all together.
Bonhoeffer also noted “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children” or at least the ones it does not kill and parse out to the highest bidders.
Will we even show up for the exam?
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This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: LETTER: Silence about Planned Parenthood is deafening