The Holocaust Should Be Applauded...IF...

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This week marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Jews from the concentration camp of Auschwitz. One of the motto's you heard from liberated prisoners was the expression, “Never forget.” Unfortunately, some are taught the holocaust never happened. Some, if not many, are not even taught of its tragic history.

(Stutthof Gas Chamber)

Just what happened at Auschwitz? Lucia Suarez Sang says it concisely: “Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most notorious in a system of death and concentration camps operated by Nazi Germany across occupied Europe. It is estimated that some 1.3 million people were deported to the camp between 1940 and 1945.Of these, at least 1.1 million are believed to have been murdered by the gas chambers and crematoria before the Soviet Army liberated the camp 75 years ago.”[1]
My wife and I visited Stutthof Concentration Camp in Sztutowo, Poland. 63,000 total people were murdered there, including 28,000 Jews. A sobering testament to the wickedness of the heart of mankind. Men, women, and children murdered without cause. Horrific.
But as I reflected on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and even my time at Stutthof, a horrifying thought came to mind: The holocaust should be applauded…
Before you think I’m crazy, let me finish the thought. The Holocaust should be applauded if... If what? If 2 popular ideas are true. What are those ideas?
  1. Morals are relative.
  2. Choice is the highest virtue.
Morals are relative. It’s popular to say that morals are relative. This is the idea that there is no absolute right and wrong. There are just preferences. 

What one culture says is right may be wrong for another culture. What is right for one person may be wrong for another. There is no objective right or wrong. If that is in fact true, what happened in Auschwitz wasn’t wrong. 

In 1945-1946 during the Nuremberg Trials, the international courts decided that the holocaust was a crime against humanity. But if moral relativism is true, the courts are mistaken. They can’t condemn the murder of 6 million Jews. Instead, they should have applauded the individuality and the carrying out of a moral preference. But surely, it couldn’t be deemed as wrong.

Under moral relativism, there’s no difference between stealing or paying for a car.
Under moral relativism, there is no difference between the murdering of 6 million Jews or the feeding of homeless. 
Under moral relativism, there is no difference between raping a child or nurturing a child.

You see under moral relativism, it’s all a choice and no choice is better or worse. It just is. But this idea of choice as a virtue is the second popular idea.

Choice is the highest virtue. As liberated and non-liberated Jews declare to this day, “Never again!” That may have been their choice, but the Nazi’s had their own choice to make. It was that they were superior to Jews and other people groups. Therefore, the virtue of choice won out. And since that’s the highest virtue in our culture, it wasn’t wrong. It should be celebrated.
We see this notion of choice as the highest virtue all around us. It’s on TV, online, in Washington, D.C. It’s on window decals. “My body. My choice.” That’s the highest virtue. It doesn’t matter who it hurts…or kills. My choice is better than your choice. It’s simply moral relativism repackaged as a slogan.
Again, if moral relativism is true and if this applied is choice as the higher virtue, we cannot condemn the holocaust. Liberated Jews may cry out “Never forget!” They may cry out “Never again!” And I pray it does never happen again, but unfortunately, it is happening again. There’s another evil that is happening in the US to the tune of 623,000+ murders a year. According to the CDC there are 623,000+ abortions per year.[2] Consider the fact since abortion was legalized in 1970, there have been over 45,700,000 legal abortions in the United States.[3]
It’s popular to chant “My body! My choice!” In essence the Nazi’s were saying, “My morals. My choice.” Well, if morals are relative, then choice is the highest virtue. Then the choice to murder Jews or murder babies are not to be condemned, but to be applauded.
But we know in our core that murder is wrong. The murder of people because of their ethnicity, race, sex, or religion is wrong. It’s also wrong because of age or location, whether inside or outside a womb.
I’ve written on why moral relativism fails to be true. Read these articles here: Does Morality Point to God Pt 1,  Does Morality Point to God Pt 2, & Objections to the Moral Law.
We know that objective morality is true. We act like it. We react like it. It's innate. That’s why the holocaust cannot and will not be applauded. That's why the murder of innocent children and babies cannot and will not be applauded.
As James said, “Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it” (4:17).
Stand up. Speak up. The blood of millions demands it.

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