"Don't be indifferent.  Do not be indifferent when you see historical lies.  Do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated against.  Do not be indifferent when power violates a social contract.  If you are indifferent, before you know it another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants."

    So said Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who died a couple of weeks ago at the age of 98.  At a time when some of those who hold public office act as if the rule of law means nothing, or when they try to rewrite history to suit their own narrative of why things are the way they are, we do well to heed Turski's words.  More than almost anyone else today, he knew the immense danger of projecting indifference to abuses of power.  Turski reminds us that the less we object to rulers taking liberty with the law, the more they will be encouraged to keep doing it.

    Far fetched?  Not really:  democracy only survives when those living with it work actively to sustain it.  Democracy cannot last without constant scrutiny of how it is being manipulated or abused--and people respond accordingly.

    What does this have to do with God?  Absolutely everything:  humans are made to be the fullest expressions of humanness they can be.