My Response to “The Courage of Compassion” by Galen Pearl

“Once a person has surrendered his/her will and become a mere tool, there are no lengths of evil to which the fool will not go, yet all the time is unable to see that it is evil. Here lies the danger of a diabolical exploitation of humanity, which can do irreparable damage to the human character.

But it is just at this point that we realize that the fool cannot be saved by education. What he/she needs is redemption…”
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer’s message is a stark warning to us all. Should we chose to march, write letters to various publications or to our congress people, give money to what we feel is a “just cause” — lets us remember that all are susceptible to personal and collective error, to misguided thinking, to human frailty.