"We are all human beings" - by Cathy Ross

"We are all human beings"

During our discussion after the session on ethnic identity and reconciliation, Dr. Rene Padilla reminded us that indeed "we are all human beings." The previous day we had visited the "House of Terror" - this was the headquarters for the Nazi's and then the Hungarian secret police - in an elegant building in Budapest's main street. It is a museum which shows what happened under two totalitarian regimes: Nazism and Communism. It included a torture chamber with all the gruesome instruments of torture.
I thought: How can we do this to one another? If only we can remember that we have our humanity in common, that we are all human beings and that each of us is created in the image of God, then we could not, we dare not perpatrate these horrors on one another. Whatever our identity, we are all human beings.