The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Tonight I watched "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." It was one of the most moving pictures I have seen in years. There is nothing that moves a person more to action than to witness human suffering.

How did we ever get to the point where one group of people could deem another group of people as not human? How could anyone do to another human being what was done in the concentration camps during World War II?

This movie is a very clever look at the whole situation through the eyes of an 8 year old who is the son of a German soilder. His family moves from Berlin because his father has been put in charge of one of the concentration camps. The boy doesn't realize what the camp is, he thinks its a farm. Although the concentration camp is never identified we know it is Auschwitz because it is the only death camp with 4 crematoria. To find out more history on Auschwitz click here.

After I watched the movie I realized that this sort of thing is still happening in different parts of the world. Humans treated worse than animals, being enslaved, beaten and killed all because of their race, color, or creed. We must, in the name of Jesus, find a way to stop these horrible injustices from happening. That sort of treatment doesn't deserve to happen to anyone, we are all made in the image of God.

Whether it be in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, or right in our own backyard we have an obligation to educate ourselves on these matters and not turn a deaf ear and to act.