Every time you wash your hands before you touch an infant, you are doing something that a young Hungarian doctor in Vienna was laughed at for suggesting, and he kept on saying it while his colleagues turned their backs on him, while he lost his position, and right up until he died in an asylum in 1865, long before anyone admitted he was right.
That kind of thing lies all around you, once you start to notice it.
The Bible in your own language cost a man his life at the stake in 1536.
That you cannot be owned by another human being, that a judge may not condemn you without law, that the king himself stands under something higher than him - none of it came by itself, and none of it was passed by a majority that one day agreed to be good.
It was said out loud by someone while everyone around them told them to be quiet, kindly at first and later with threats, and some of them paid the highest price a Human Being can pay.
It was not their stubbornness that made the difference, because the world has always had plenty of stubborn people, also among those who were wrong. It was that what they said was True, and that they knew it well enough to stay standing when it began to cost.
You live in the house they built.
You walk on their floors and switch on the light without thinking about who pulled the wires.
And then you sit at the dinner table, in the meeting and in the comment section and know perfectly well what you are seeing, and say nothing, because someone might think something about you.
Not beat you.
Not imprison you.
Not burn you.
Think something.
That is the whole price today, and it has become too high.
Let me use this Monday to remind you -
Silence has never built any of what you live in.
So when you see something that is not true, say it out loud. That is how we have arranged things here in the West - not so the majority is always right, but so the one who sees rightly can be heard, and every time enough people have dared to listen, the world has moved. Upwards. Towards more of The Good, The Beautiful and The True. A city on a hill cannot be hidden, and it was never meant to try.
All it takes is your faith, your heart and your mouth.
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Happy Monday, friends ☀️
