It appears some people have a hankering for a race war. Trump himself appeared to throw gasoline on the fire recently by making a false claim that some people were calling for moments of silence in honor of the shooter in Dallas.
Let’s stop a minute and take a breath. Let’s consider something from a man who knew more than a thing or two about persecution.
After psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived time in four Nazi death camps, he wrote about his experiences in “Man’s Search for Meaning.” Something he wrote seems particularly relevant to recent events:
“…there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the ‘race’ of the decent man and the ‘race’ of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of ‘pure race’ — and therefore one occasionally found a decent fellow among the camp guards.”
Rather than getting worked into a lather over “who is with us” and “who is against us,” our time would be better spent asking who is a decent person…and who isn’t.
