Death and Evil: Anniversary

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Today is the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II: the day in 1939 when Hitler's armies faked
a "border incident" to justify their invasion of Poland.  Within days, England and France, allies of Poland,
also declared war on Germany, and all the nations of the earth were plunged into the most destructive
war mankind has yet seen.

The best official estimates are that, in all the world's nations; from military actions, war-crimes, and
war-related famine and disease; between 70- and 85-million people died.

We won a great victory over evil...as we think.

But the evil motives for which that war was fought, and every war is fought...

and the evil ideas by which men always tell themselves it's God's work to kill each other...

are still alive.