April 15th this year was not just the day to pay our taxes to an all-powerful and intrusive government.
No, this year April 15th marked Holocaust Remembrance Day which should remind us of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its European allies against the stateless and hapless Jews a mere 70 years ago. It is no accident to reflect upon the name of the largest Jewish cemetery in the world: It is called: Europe.
Before the Second World War, there were some 18 million Jews. After the war, and the defeat of Germany, there were only 12 million remaining. The six million who perished soaked the benighted soil of Europe with their blood and filled the skies with their ashes.
But these were the Jewish victims of the 20th century. For nearly two millennia – before that bloodiest of all centuries unleashed its barbarism and infernal hate upon the Jewish people – millions more had died and suffered cruel martyrdom at the hands of the medieval Church and the European temporal powers.