We all know the story...
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We all know the story of Noah and the ark, and we give our children wooden toys of the
boat and the animals -- two elephants, two ostriches, two hippopotamuses -- and we sing
fun songs about the animals marching in, two by two.
But the setting of the story is anything but fun. The people of this earth had become so violent that the Lord God decided to wipe them all out (well, most of them) and start over.
We also all know the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who hid out with her family in Amsterdam, Holland, during World War II to escape the violence of the Nazis.
Recently, the Institute for Jewish Research in New York City found papers showing that Anne's father had asked a friend to help him bring his family to safety in the United States, but the US was reluctant to accept refugees. So Anne and her family ended up in a Nazi concentration camp, where they later died.
How much are you and I willing to do to try to stop the violence?
But the setting of the story is anything but fun. The people of this earth had become so violent that the Lord God decided to wipe them all out (well, most of them) and start over.
We also all know the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who hid out with her family in Amsterdam, Holland, during World War II to escape the violence of the Nazis.
Recently, the Institute for Jewish Research in New York City found papers showing that Anne's father had asked a friend to help him bring his family to safety in the United States, but the US was reluctant to accept refugees. So Anne and her family ended up in a Nazi concentration camp, where they later died.
How much are you and I willing to do to try to stop the violence?
