To my fellow young ministers, In leading the German people towards a perpetration of genocide, Adolf Hitler execrably stated that "the personification of the Devil, as the symbol of all evil, assumes the living appearance of the Jew." Written a decade-and-a-half before the Shoah, these words (and many like them) sparked an ideological mobilization among the German people that led to the systematic murder of over six million Jewish people. This was the birth of a genocide - not the killing of the first beloved child, but the authoring of these hateful words by an ideological leader. Today, more than ever since, words like these are promulgated by such leaders. In our context, these words are spewed by a despot not unlike the leader of the Third Reich, whose words of hate have reached all parts of the popular American consciousness. Just as the speeches of Adolf Hitler rang across the German nation, so too have his speeches of hate slashed at the consciouses of all Americans. B...