Why this tolerance for torture? - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com

May 6, 2009 ... Between 1933 and 1945, as a series of restrictive laws, brutal pogroms and mass deportations culminated in the slaughter of six million Jews ...

...You'd think people who claim connection to a higher morality would be the ones most likely to take the lonely, principled stand. But you need only look at history to see how seldom that has been the case, how frequently my people -- Christians -- acquiesce to expediency and fail to look beyond the immediate....

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Patrick: Mr. Pitts, a Christian himself, takes a look at several historical situations in which too many professing followers of Jesus came down on the wrong side of the ethical divide. I love this article. If every Christian would read it and take it to heart, we'd be better off.