"Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."
Jeremiah 13:23
When I was a boy, I watched "The World at War" on network television with my parents. My father was an adolescent during WW II, and had grown up in its shadow. I asked him, "Dad, didn't the people of that time all KNOW that the Nazis were that evil? Didn't the Germans KNOW that they were doing wrong?"
He looked at me and said, "Not really, not everyone. It wasn't until 1941 that the country was against the Germans after they declared war on us, and even then many Americans didn't even think we should be fighting them. Many Americans had German relatives. It was the Japanese everyone saw as the enemy that attacked us. It wasn't until the end of the war that we knew about the death camps over there." (my father was half German)
I could not believe my ears. How could people not know?
Charles Lindbergh was cheered by tens of thousands as he preached the isolationist philosophy that was so popular in its day - even though Americans knew FULL well about the night of the broken glass, burned Jewish synagogues, and persecution of Poles, Jews, and political dissidents. Evil marches on.
Today, we have the Barack Obamas, John Kerrys, and Chuck Hagels. They HATE Israel and the Jews. Their past statements and actions speak volumes towards this.
But they are not labeled as evil by the world. In fact, they are celebrated.
I could not believe the answer.