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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 16 10 2005 - No excuses for sin |
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No excuses for sin Eichmann was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in Hitler’s concentration camps. Yet when he was brought to trial he absolved himself from all personal responsibility by claiming that he was merely carrying out orders. But he was deceiving himself. We are all responsible for what we do, even though we may try to hide behind others. Eichmann has legions of followers today. Millions sell their souls, if not to an individual, then to a party, or company, or institution. Yet, if in the course of so-called duty, people lose themselves and their own souls, whatever they do or achieve will be worthless. Would that every Christian could say what Thomas More said: ‘I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first’. |
