German neo-Nazis tore up and burned a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank after hijacking a traditional gala...I draw your attention to this article because so many District 214 teachers, parents, and students saw fit to draw a comparison between Hitler/Nazis and today's conservative Christian community. The analogy is not only egregiously offensive, but is just dead wrong - and it demonstrates a void of appreciation for the utterly evil motives of Hitler and other Nazi leaders, an ignorance of the violence and suffering they perpetrated on millions.
The book-burning, which has chilling parallels to the 1930s when Nazi supporters made pyres of books written by Jews, follows a string of high-profile attacks by racist gangs on blacks.
The neo-Nazis descended on a field in the village of Pretzien, Saxony, where local people were re-enacting a pagan rite celebrating midsummer. A bonfire was lit and the book and flag destroyed. Before they burned the book, the extremists used it as a football in a drunken kick-around...
Consider this recent episode. What kind of person tears up and burns a book written by a little girl who spent three years of her short life in an attic, who was betrayed into the hands of murderers, who died in a concentration camp? Who cheers and chants over that? Think about the heart of such a man - the venom, the sheer idiocy. That is the kind of person to which we Christians were likened; those are the motives that were imputed!
Did you see Leslie Pinney and all her supporters kicking and destroying and burning books? Did they chant and dance? Do they hate - literally desire the deaths of - the authors?
Such an insulting comparison demands only disrespect for the one who draws it...especially where that person purports to teach school children.
