[Edited extract from public address]
The calculated and systemic dehumanization of Jews in Germany mid-20th Century facilitated the silence of so many as the Holocaust was taking place.
The 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions will feature a booth from the Holocaust Museum examining that phenomenon in the Exhibit Hall.Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki militarily necessary?
By any rational yardstick, they were not. Japan already had been defeated militarily by June 1945. However, dehumanizing the Japanese people not only allowed the detention of Japanese Americans, but also the use of the atomic bomb. We will have an installation from Hiroshima about the impact of that bombing in the Parliament Cultural Hall.The interfaith movement focuses on humanizing the other.
This is the reason we will also have an original hand cart at the Parliament which Mormons used when they fled religious persecution from Illinois to Utah.MORE:
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
70 East Lake Street, Suite 205
Chicago, IL 60601 USA
Tel: 312-629-2990
Fax: 312-629-2991
Email: 2015@parliamentofreligions.org
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