The Vital Lesson of Kristallnacht

November 9, 2013 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of one of the most notorious and nasty crimes of the twentieth century: the "Night of the Broken Glass," when Nazi Germany engaged in an orgy of destruction and violence against those Jews who remained in the Third Reich.  Jews were beaten and killed; synagogues were vandalized and burned; Jewish homes and businesses were pillaged and wrecked. 

The vital lesson of Kristallnacht and the interconnected horrors of the last century is that Christians and Jews are canaries in the mineshaft of human behavior.  This is very scary history for us today. 

Which nations are loathed most lustily by the adopted children of Hitler and Stalin today?  Two nations alone face hissing from the shadows: America, which has the most devoted Christian population of any major nation in the world, and Israel, the only true homeland for the Jewish people.  The voices of hatred come within America from men like Barack Obama, who are bitterly clinging to their atheism and statism."     [Bruce Walker]