Discussing the Three Things We're Told Never to Talk About by Lucas Mack

Born in 1892, Martin Niemöller was a prominent German Lutheran pastor who became an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. It was Niemöller who wrote:

First they came for the Bolsheviks, and I said nothing—

Because I was not a Bolshevik.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I said nothing— 

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I said nothing— 

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak.

Unfortunately, it was too late for millions of people who lost their lives during World War Two to recognize the danger Martin described. His writing summarizes the greatest danger humanity has ever faced, in the past, in the present, and if not stopped into the future. What is the greatest danger? Relational Relativism. Relational Relativism is a term I’ve coined which means to treat people differently than we would treat ourselves or closest loved ones. When we do treat someone different, it essentially erases their humanity and places you as master. When we see another human being as anything less than a human being who is exactly like us, we fall into the same end where we divide ourselves, only to see more pain. If I don’t see you the same way I see me, then I don’t really see me. 

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