Like many readers, I have taken my summer holidays recently.
I chose to visit the ancient city of Krakow in southern Polandwith a priest friend.
Following advice, we decided to visit the State Museums atOswiencim. This town is over 600 years old and yet is infamous for aname it bore for just six years of Nazi occupation, Auschwitz.
Like the vast majority of visitors, I was moved to tears. As abeliever in God, I was challenged to ask where God was in all ofthis.
It was very plain to me that the SS guards and officers weretotally indoctrinated with the Nazi ideology, one which excludesbelief in a supreme being. They had no belief in ultimate justice orin conventional morality.
As a result, they had no qualms to stealing the property of theirvictims or realisation that they were systematically murderingthousands of innocent victims.
The atheist, Communist regimes, which we once saw in Russia andEastern Europe had a similar difficulty in respecting human rights.It seems to me that most of the value of man, to say nothing ofhuman values, is rooted in belief in the Creator.
Rejecting God does not liberate mankind but puts us at risk ofself-destruction.
As a result, I am determined to resist the secularisation ofsociety.
Fr Philip Thomas
SS Joseph and Teresa Catholic Church
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