It's hard to imagine for post - war children like me who have never experienced war,what war and occupation was like in every day life. How is it that people can be so wicked towards each other? It is hard to imagine since I meet German seafarers on a weekly basis with whom I have very good relations and who are very hospitable. It is hard to imagine that their grandfathers' minds were poisened by a false ideology/philosophy of 'ubermensch vs untermensch '. An ideology of the ' super race ' which would rule the world for a thousand years! The result was a bloodbath of more than 50 million casualties of war and damage beyond human imagination.
I am writing this blog a few days after the death of Osama bin Laden. Another tragic figure who tried to change the world through hatred, fear and death. The civil war is still going on in Lybia and scores of people are being killed in Syria. All these people long for freedom! Freedom from oppression, something we are so blessed with in Canada and which we often do not appreciate.
I do know about one kind of peace and freedom. A freedom that sets us free from the bondage of sin, death and hell and comes only through faith in Jesus Christ as described in the Bible where we read:
" It is for freedom that Christ has set us free " ( Galatians 5:1 )
" Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ " ( Romans 5:1 )
" Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus be-
cause through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law
of sin and death " ( Romans 8:1,2 )
