{"id":53154,"date":"2016-01-28T04:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_justins_message_for_holocaust_memorial_day\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T04:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T04:30:32","slug":"archbishop_justins_message_for_holocaust_memorial_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53154","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Justin Welby&#39;s message for Holocaust Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Holocaust Memorial Day is Don\u2019t Stand by. It&#8217;s a call not just to remember, but to act. But in order to act, we must remember. Remembering enables us to see that the Holocaust did not happen suddenly and it did not happen through the acts of a few. It happened through the silent collaboration of the many.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been acceptable to claim that we don\u2019t know because we can\u2019t see. We cannot walk on by on the other side oblivious to the needs of our neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>In the world we inhabit, the searchlight of an active media illuminates the dark recesses of the caricature, simplistic criticism and ridicule that leads inexorably to the dehumanising and degrading treatment of others. History shows clearly that, unopposed, this can lead to violent persecution and genocide.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not called to be passive observers and silent accomplices to discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5662\/archbishop-justins-message-for-holocaust-memorial-day\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Holocaust Memorial Day is Don\u2019t Stand by. It&#8217;s a call not just to remember, but to act. But in order to act, we must remember. Remembering enables us to see that the Holocaust did not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53154\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,42,382,74,67,389,143,168,200,133,161,429,155,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}