Never forget? I bet you will
Kudos also to Bill Maher for ripping media outlets for deliberately refusing to use the word “terrorism” to describe what happened.If you think I’m making mountains out of molehills here, then please step back for a moment and ask yourself if there are any parallels with the 9/11 “forgetting” and another, larger-scale tragedy.Following WWII, “Never Forget” and “Never Again” became moral imperatives raised by writers like Nazi survivor Elie Wiesel and global communities at large to keep attention on the Holocaust and ensure its true history stayed alive. And it all happens because of an even greater kind of “forgetting.”Forgetting GodAleksandr Solzhenitsyn identified the cause of our primary, reckless amnesia years ago in a speech discussing 20th century atrocities that many call “The Great Forgetting”: “Today’s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding centuries, would have called forth the cry: “This is the Apocalypse!” Yet we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it … we have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”Scripture warns countless times about forgetting God and what happens when we do. The biblical pattern is there for all to read: God blesses, people become comfortable, people forget God, turn away, and rebellion follows.For example, God warned ancient Israel: “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Deut.
